Listed Building: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (1387021)

Church. 1827-28. By Jacob Owen. 1877 chancel rebuilt, probably by John Oldrid Scott. Damaged Second World War and restored 1950. 1975, part of gallery at west end converted into offices and social space. Ashlar stone, Welsh slate roofs with clay moulded and pierced ridge pieces. Neo-Perpendicular style. PLAN: 7-bay aisled nave, 3-bay chancel, west porch tower and spirelet, north-west vestry. EXTERIOR: north face: chancel has three 3-light Neo-Perpendicular stone traceried windows, each light with pointed cusped heads, set under pointed arch. Dripstone with dropped head bosses. Flanking stepped buttresses, each ascending to a pinnacle with octagonal top with 4 inset panels, trefoil moulded band across centre. Nave has second tall 4-light Neo-Perpendicular windows each set under a pointed arch, stone panels through centre set between tracery, banded sill. Far right bay has a recessed vertically panelled door set under pointed arch. Flanking stepped buttresses. Projecting stone plinth. South face similar to north but with vestry to far right with recessed panelled door at centre set under stone pointed arch with dripstone. Flanking 2-light stone windows, each light with pointed cusped head set under moulded stone flat arch with dripstone. At high level is a 2-light stone traceried window, each light with ogee cusped head set under pointed arch with dripstone. Stepped buttress at right corner of vestry and ornate stone stack. East face of chancel has a large Neo-Perpendicular 5-light stone window, cusped head to each light within ogee arch and set under a pointed stone arch. West face with diagonal stepped buttress at each corner has to north and south aisle a 4-light Neo-Perpendicular stone window, each lower half blinded with recessed stone panels between tracery. Projecting nave has stepped angle buttresses, each terminating above roof level with a crocketed pinnacle. At centre is a recessed 2-leaf boarded door with deep moulded jambs and pointed arch. Above is a tall Neo-Perpendicular 5-light stone window with bottom half blinded with recessed stone panels between tracery, pointed arch. Clock face over ogee dripstone. Facing gable has pierced stone parapet with copings. Tower base with diagonal stepped buttresses has a recessed 2-light Y-traceried louvred opening with pointed arch and dripstone, embattled parapet, recessed crocketed spirelet and corner sprocketed pinnacles. INTERIOR: north and south arcades to aisled nave have clustered quatrefoil iron piers with moulded capitals, band moulds and bases, pointed arches each with ogee bead over. Plaster groined vaulting to nave ceiling springs from capitals. Aisles have lower level cross vaulting. Galleries to aisles have segmental supporting arches between columns with vertical panelled balcony fronts. Vaulted ceiling to aisles below balcony. West bay including vestibule has late C20 partitioning to form offices, kitchen, toilets etc. East chancel arch has clustered iron columns with plastered segmental pointed arch. The 3 chancel bays have stone lierne vaulting, and flanking each window is an attached column from which vaulting springs. Organ loft on north side. Stained glass to east windows 1950 by Terence Randall. (Balfour A: Portsmouth: Highgate Hill, London: 1970-: 37, 38; Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 122; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 435, 436; Offord J: Churches, Chapels and Places of Worship on Portsea Island: Southsea: 1989-: 14, 15, 16). Selected Sources Books and journals Balfour, A, Portsmouth, (1970), 37,38 Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 122 Offord, J , Churches Chapels and Places of Worship on Portsea Island, (1989), 14,15,16 Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 435,436