Description

TQ 3983 CHURCH STREET
7/5 WEST HAM E15

- Church of All Saints

- I

Church 12th century onwards. Coursed rubble, brick tile, and ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs.
Castellated west tower of c.1400. Ragstone, mended with tiles, with crenellated
octagonal stair turret. Complex building history. Norman nave with blocked clere-
story windows. Seven bay nave of mid-13th century in the extension to east circa
1400. North chancel chapel circa 1550 of red brick with diapered blue brick deco-
ration and Tudor arched windows with brick mullions. South side of church refaced
early C19 in yellow stock brick. Fine nave roof with late 15th century tie beams.
chancel roof circa 1500. Externally separate hipped roofs to aisles and nave.
Dormer windows form clerestory. Long covered way from road to south porch late C19.
Reredos by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Architectural fragments from Stratford
Langthorne Abbey incorporated in fabric including one two-light window and sculptured
stone with skulls. Very fine monuments, medieval and later.

Listing NGR: TQ3941283862

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of All Saints at Wikipedia
• Church of All Saints official website
• Wikidata Q17527961

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)