All Saints' Church, Leek
| All Saints' Church, Leek | |
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.jpg) View from the west | |
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| 53°6′8″N 2°1′26″W / 53.10222°N 2.02389°W | |
| OS grid reference | SJ 985 561 |
| Location | Leek, Staffordshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Website | http://leekparish.org.uk/churches/all-saints-church/ |
| History | |
| Consecrated | 1887 |
| Architecture | |
| Heritage designation | Grade I |
| Designated | 13 April 1951[2] |
| Architect(s) | Norman Shaw |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Diocese of Lichfield |
| Deanery | Leek Deanery[1] |
All Saints' Church is an Anglican church in Leek, Staffordshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. It was designed by Norman Shaw, and built in 1885–1887; the church has stained glass by Morris & Co.
History
[edit]An earlier brick-built church in the Compton area of Leek opened in 1863; it was known as Compton Schoolchurch or Christ Church. It was enlarged in 1885.[3]
Joseph Challinor, a Leek solicitor, gave part of the site for a new church in Compton, and contributed nearly one third of the cost. The church was designed by Norman Shaw; he had come to the area in the 1860s to design the new St Matthew's Church in Meerbrook.[3]
The foundation stone of All Saints' was laid in 1885, and the church was consecrated in 1887.[3]
The parish of All Saints was formed in 1889, out of St Luke's and St Edward's. It covered the southern part of the town and Longsdon, a village south-west of Leek. The parishes of St Edward, All Saints and St Luke became the parish of Leek in 1979.[3]
Details
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The church has a large crossing tower with clasping buttresses. There is a wide nave, of four bays, and a single bay in the crossing. There is a low clerestory. The church being on a sloping site, the vestry is beneath the chancel. There is a deep porch in the north-west, with a wide entrance.[2]
Interior
[edit]Much of the stained glass is by Morris & Co., of which some are to designs of Edward Burne-Jones. The south wall window of the Lady Chapel, and all the painted decorations in the chancel, are by Gerald Horsley.[2][4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ All Saints' Church, Leek Diocese of Lichfield, accessed 21 October 2017.
- ^ a b c Historic England. "Parish Church of All Saints (1268538)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
- ^ a b c d A P Baggs, M F Cleverdon, D A Johnston and N J Tringham, "Leek: Leek and Lowe", in A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 7, Leek and the Moorlands, ed. C R J Currie and M W Greenslade (London, 1996), pp. 84–169. British History Online, accessed 14 September 2017.
- ^ All Saints, Compton, Leek by Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912): Interior The Victorian Web, accessed 14 September 2017