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The good shepherd, All Saints Church
VISIT TO ALL SAINTS CHURCH, BROMSGROVE, 5 DECEMBER 2022
Some old mates and I still enjoy taking photos, especially of subjects such as churches with some age to them – it’s empathy, I guess, and there’s always somewhere to sit down. When the average age of your party is 80 plus that is not an insignificant detail. Since the pandemic backed off a little we have visited several, ranging from simple 13th Century village churches to examples from that other great church building age, the 19th Century. On 5 December 2022 it was one of the latter we decided to take a good look at, which is why we found ourselves on a very chilly morning in All Saints, Bromsgrove.
We have another necessity within 5 minutes’ drive – a half way decent pub for lunch and a chat.
All Saints Bromsgrove has a lot going for it – it’s a fine, large Victorian church completed in 1874, with its tower added in 1888.
For those who like detail:-
“Church. 1872-4 tower added 1888 by John Cotton. Rock faced coursed sandstone
exterior, brick interior, modern clay tile roof. Nave, aisles, transepts, chancel
with apsed end, north west tower, south porch, Transitional/Early English style.
Windows mainly Geometrical in character, the east window with 5 lights with
quatrefoils and a large septfoil in the head, this wholly renewed in 1970s.
Foundation stone AD1872. Aisle and clerestorey windows are two lights and of
different design on either side to give appearance of several building periods.
Single transcept on south, double on north again with different windows; paired
lancet with roundel above on south, 3 light Geometrical with triple quatrefoils on
north. Chancel has lancet lights with cusped heads. Three stage tower with
corner buttresses with offsets, paired lancet lights and balustraded and pinnacled
parapet. Interior: Brick with stone arcading, with coloured bands. 5 bay nave
of pointed arches with alternate cylindrical and octagonal piers. A arch braced
collar roof. Original ironwork, font, pulpit, glass and altar and choir stalls.
C20 choir panelling, furnishings and organ. A good church with a consistent
decorative scheme designed by a local architect and worthy.”
Much of the detailing inside the church is fine, and owes much to the members and tradition of the famous Bromsgrove Guild, best known for the design of the gates of Buckingham Palace Gates:-
“The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts (1898–1966) was a company of modern artists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, founded by Walter Gilbert. The guild worked in metal, wood, plaster, bronze, tapestry, glass and other mediums.”
The good shepherd, All Saints Church
VISIT TO ALL SAINTS CHURCH, BROMSGROVE, 5 DECEMBER 2022
Some old mates and I still enjoy taking photos, especially of subjects such as churches with some age to them – it’s empathy, I guess, and there’s always somewhere to sit down. When the average age of your party is 80 plus that is not an insignificant detail. Since the pandemic backed off a little we have visited several, ranging from simple 13th Century village churches to examples from that other great church building age, the 19th Century. On 5 December 2022 it was one of the latter we decided to take a good look at, which is why we found ourselves on a very chilly morning in All Saints, Bromsgrove.
We have another necessity within 5 minutes’ drive – a half way decent pub for lunch and a chat.
All Saints Bromsgrove has a lot going for it – it’s a fine, large Victorian church completed in 1874, with its tower added in 1888.
For those who like detail:-
“Church. 1872-4 tower added 1888 by John Cotton. Rock faced coursed sandstone
exterior, brick interior, modern clay tile roof. Nave, aisles, transepts, chancel
with apsed end, north west tower, south porch, Transitional/Early English style.
Windows mainly Geometrical in character, the east window with 5 lights with
quatrefoils and a large septfoil in the head, this wholly renewed in 1970s.
Foundation stone AD1872. Aisle and clerestorey windows are two lights and of
different design on either side to give appearance of several building periods.
Single transcept on south, double on north again with different windows; paired
lancet with roundel above on south, 3 light Geometrical with triple quatrefoils on
north. Chancel has lancet lights with cusped heads. Three stage tower with
corner buttresses with offsets, paired lancet lights and balustraded and pinnacled
parapet. Interior: Brick with stone arcading, with coloured bands. 5 bay nave
of pointed arches with alternate cylindrical and octagonal piers. A arch braced
collar roof. Original ironwork, font, pulpit, glass and altar and choir stalls.
C20 choir panelling, furnishings and organ. A good church with a consistent
decorative scheme designed by a local architect and worthy.”
Much of the detailing inside the church is fine, and owes much to the members and tradition of the famous Bromsgrove Guild, best known for the design of the gates of Buckingham Palace Gates:-
“The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts (1898–1966) was a company of modern artists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, founded by Walter Gilbert. The guild worked in metal, wood, plaster, bronze, tapestry, glass and other mediums.”