All Saints Church, Harthill

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All Saints Church, Harthill
All Saints Church, Harthill (Cheshire)
All Saints Church, Harthill
Shown within Cheshire
Basic information
Location Harthill, Cheshire, England
Geographic coordinates 53°05′31″N 2°44′46″W / 53.0918, -2.7460Coordinates: 53°05′31″N 2°44′46″W / 53.0918, -2.7460
Ecclesiastical status Redundent church
Architectural description
Architectural type Church
Year completed 1863
Specifications
Length 65 feet (20 m)
Width 24 feet (7 m)
Materials Ashlar red and buff sandstone
Welsh slate roof with stone ridge

All Saints Church, Harthill is in the village of Harthill, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ500552). It is a Grade II* listed building.[1] The church is now redundant and it is being converted into a community facility for the village and locality.[2]

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[edit] History

A chapel is first mentioned on this site in 1280. It is likely that the earlier church was timber framed. The present church was built in 1609. A restoration was carried out in 1862–63 and at this time a vestry was added to the north side and a larger belfry was erected.[3]

[edit] Structure

The church is built in ashlar red and buff sandstone with a Welsh slate roof and a stone ridge. The five-bay nave and chancel are in one range and there is a south porch and a north vestry. Inside is a hammerbeam roof.[1] The windows are square-headed, those on the sides having four lights, while the east window has six lights with a transom.[3]

[edit] External features

In the churchyard to the east of the former church is a mausoleum dated 1885 which is constructed in ashlar buff sandstone with granite dressings. It is rectangular in plan with a stepped hipped cap surmounted by a slab with a cross upon it. On the long sides are six short pilasters and on the short sides four pilasters. The side panels are inscribed with memorials to members of the Barbour family of Bolesworth Castle.[4] Also in the churchyard is a sandstone cross from the 11th or 12th century[5] and a sundial dated 1778 consisting of a sandstone column on an old millstone.[6] All these structures are listed Grade II.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Images of England: Church of All Saints, Harthill. English Heritage. Retrieved on 2007-09-10.
  2. ^ Harthill Creative Centre. Harthill Trust. Retrieved on 2007-09-10.
  3. ^ a b Richards, Raymond (1947). Old Cheshire Churches. London: Batsford, 180–184. 
  4. ^ Images of England: Barbour Mausoleum in All Saints Churchyard. English Heritage. Retrieved on 2007-11-05.
  5. ^ Images of England: Cross outside porch of All Saints Church. English Heritage. Retrieved on 2007-11-05.
  6. ^ Images of England: Sundial in All Saints Churchyard. English Heritage. Retrieved on 2007-11-05.

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