All Saints Church, Balterley
History
The church was built in 1901 to a design by the Lancaster firm of architects Austin and Paley.
Architecture
All Saints is constructed in brick with ashlar dressings, and has a red tiled roof. Its architectural style is Gothic Revival. The plan consists of a two-bay nave and a single-bay chancel in a single cell, a northeast vestry, a southwest porch, and a bellcote at the west end. Buttresses externally mark the division between the nave and the chancel. Along the sides of the church are three two-light windows. The lateral windows have square heads. The central windows are taller, and rise through the eaves forming dormers; they contain Decorated-style tracery. The east window has three lights with Perpendicular tracery. On the north side of the vestry is a three-light window and a door. The bellcote has a gable surmounted by a cross finial.
Inside the church, the octagonal font is in marble with a small wooden cover. The wooden pulpit is also octagonal. The reredos is panelled, and is decorated with shields.
See also
References
- ^ All Saints Memorial Church, Balterley, Church of England, retrieved 1 February 2012
- ^ Historic England. "Church of All Saints (1188139)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974), Staffordshire, The Buildings of England, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, p. 65, ISBN 0-14-071046-9