Bradford Church of All Saints Basics
Listed building grade 2
Regularly open
Address
Church of All Saints
Bradford
Holsworthy
EX22 7AW
Geographical coordinates
50°50’35.3″N 4°14’41.9″W (enter these in your smartphone navigator)
Devonchurchland says…
A modest little ancient church tucked away in the West Devon countryside, with some true delights as ever.
The church gate is a charming Arts & Crafts creation, probably 20th century.
Then there are a good selection of 14th to16th century windows , and a striking tower which was rebuilt in 1550 after a lightning strike.
The south doorway is Norman, from a previous church on this site, and the door itself has some good Victorian hinge work.
In the nave the old Victorian altar back by famous Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Fellowes Prynne is on the south wall, a lovely piece.
In the chancel there is a very impressive Victorian aumbry, made from stone from all over the South West and a cracking piece of design. Also some seriously good floor tiles.
Topped with with good 19/20th century stained glass, this church is a simple little charm.
Outline
PLAN
- Nave
- North aisle and chapel
- West tower
- South porch
AGE
- Norman south doorway
- 14th century chancel dates
- Remodelling in the 15th century
- North aisle 15th century
- Porch probably built then too
- The tower struck by lightning in 1550 and rebuilt
- Vestry incorporates 17th century features
- But these may have been re-used in the nineteenth
- Restored in 1869 from a ruinous state
- Again during 1875 – 89 when the chancel was rebuilt
- The tower was restored and new pinnacles made in 1891
BUILT FROM
- Stone rubble walls
- Gable-ended slate roof
Exterior
WEST TOWER
- 2 stage
- Unbuttressed
- Crenellated with renewed obelisk pinnacles
- Terminating in crosses
- West doorway has 2-centred arch
- Recessed chamfer
- Arched hoodmould above
- Probably restored 2-light west window
- Cinquefoiled heads and quatrefoil over
- Belfry openings are of 2 lights
- 4-centred heads
- Hoodmoulds
NAVE
- C19 2 and 3-light Decorated style windows
- Gabled C15 or C16 porch with stone coping
- 4-centred chamfered rubble arch
CHANCEL
- East window is a C19 3-light restoration
- In the Decorated style
- South wall has 2 apparently early C14 unrestored windows
VESTRY
- Projects as a small wing from the north wall of the chancel
- With a cambered head doorway on its east side
- C17 mullion window on its north wall
NORTH AISLE
- West window renewed in C20
- Decorated style
- Granite moulded north doorway
- 4-centred head
- Hoodmould.
- To its east is early C16 3-light granite mullion
- Segmental heads
- Hoodmould
- Beyond that is a C15 3-light mullion
- Ogee-headed lights
- Hoodmould.
- East end of the north wall is a C17 straight-headed 3-light mullion
- East end wall of aisle has 3-light granite Perpendicular window
Interior
VARIOUS
- Internal walls are rendered
- 5-bay granite arcade to north aisle
- Pevsner A-type piers
- Carved capitals
- Moulding continuing on the 4-centred arches
- Tall pointed rubble tower arch
- The roofs have all been replaced during restoration
- Late C19 carved pulpit, choir stalls and benches
- Medieval Barnstaple floor tiles cover part of the nave and north chapel
- Small Norman font with fluted edge to bowl
- In north chapel are 3 C16 floor memorials
- One of 1599 to Elizabeth Pomeroy
- The others considerably worn
PORCH
- Renewed open timber roof
- Narrow Norman doorway
- Round arch to tympanum
- Dressed stone jambs
- Colonnette either side
- With carved capitals
MONUMENTS
- On north wall is a
- Marble obelisk shaped memorial to Arscott Bickford of Dunsland
- Died 1771
- Adjoining it is a large slate wall memorial
- To members of the Bickford family
- Died at various times in the C18
- Next to this is a good memorial dated 1659, 1686, and 1662
- To William Bickford, his wife Grace and Arthur Ascott of Dunsford
- Slate with a Corinthian column either side
- Surmounted by a broken pediment
- With armorial shield at centre and winged angel’s head below.
- Beyond are 2 C19 marble memorials to the Heysetts of Baracott
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