Diameter: 18" Bell 1 of 1
Dove Bell ID: 54886 Tower ID: 20611 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Hanley: All Saints
Diocese of Lichfield
Church, 620408
http://www.stokeminster.com/Overview
Grid reference: SJ 889 466
A large red brick church with stone details and window surrounds, built 1910-13 by Gerald Horsley in a Gothic Revival/Arts and Crafts style, of some value. Built to replace a previous church whose walls are integrated within the Lady Chapel and north aisle. Hanley is an area to the north-east of Stoke-on-Trent city centre and All Saints is located within an area called Joiner’s Square to its south.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
4-bay nave with clerestory and north aisle with north lobby. Chancel with north chapel and north vestry, south organ chamber with boiler house beneath.
Dimensions:
[Approximate] Nave 10m (33ft) wide x 23m (75ft), aisle 6.5m (20ft), chancel 10m (33ft) x 9m (30ft) wide.
Footprint of Church buildings: 648 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
The Joiner’s Square Mission room was set up as a branch from Hanley, St Luke’s c.1870 and subsequently replaced by the All Saints Mission Chapel in Leek Road in 1890. The Sunday School (now hall) was licensed for divine service in 1911 pending completion of a new church on the adjoining site [VCH].
The new church was designed by Horsley of London [1862-1917] a pupil of Norman Shaw. Horsley, an Arts and Crafts architect was a founder member of the Art Worker’s Guild. Horsley also built St Chad, Longsdon, 1905 and was President of the Architectural Association 1911-13 [AHP]. Assistance towards the rebuild was awarded in the form of a £200 ICBS grant awarded in 1911 as recorded by a plaque in the west lobby.
A previous church on the site was incorporated into the new building. The Lady Chapel was the former chancel, and the new north aisle remodelled from the former nave. Arches within the brickwork of the south wall has led to the suggestion that a south aisle was intended, but this is a point of varied opinion. Whilst a north-east tower was illustrated in a drawing submitted as part of the ICBS application, a tower was never built. The same drawing shows no sign of a south aisle.
The archaeological potential of the site is low. There are no known designations relating to the ecology of the plot.
Exterior Description
A large red brick church with stone details and window surrounds. It is a solid looking piece, not easy to miss with its north elevation so closely aligned with the road. On approach from the west the west gable stands proud of and dwarves the houses to its west boundary. The north aisle softens its relationship with the road, bridging the height of the nave beyond it with that of the street level. From the east, the vicarage, hall and church form a pleasant grouping.
The church, whose chancel roof is lower than the nave, has a small gabled bell-cote attached to the north nave wall at the west end. The west elevation can be appreciated more easily by the provision of an open paved space around it. An unusual outdoor sandstone pulpit has been built into the west end with a deteriorated canopy above. Tall brick buttresses are to either side. This is sited beneath the three-light west window with perpendicular style tracery and stone mullions, and a hood-mould above. The west end of the broad lean-to north aisle has double oak doors with scrolled ironwork set within a square-headed stone surround. This bears an inscription and has carved decoration in the tympanum and spandrels. Small two-light windows with tracery heads within square-headed surrounds are sited to either side. A niche above the door contains a carved figure.
The south wall is of four bays, separated by tall brick buttresses, with stone copings, rising the full-height of the walls. A stone plinth a metre from the ground, continues around the entire building. The western-most bay has a pointed doorway at ground level with a stone hood-mould above. Above it arched brickwork can be seen within the wall with two stone blocks to either end. The brick arches continue in the other bays where they are placed above three-light lancet windows with stone surrounds, without the stone springers. It is the apparent arches that have given rise to the understanding that a south aisle was intended. Each bay at clerestory level has shallow four-light square-headed windows with tracery heads (same on the north side). A lean-to organ chamber, with two-light square-headed window, projects from the south of the two-bay chancel. A two-light pointed tracery window sits in the chancel wall to the east. A chimney rises above.
On the north side, the aisle has three-light square-headed tracery windows to each bay, marked by buttresses. At the east end of the north aisle is a flat-roofed porch with crenelated parapet and a door on the west side. Beyond it, parallel to the lean-to Lady Chapel (which has three-light lancet windows with a three-light square-headed window beneath it), is a gabled vestry with square-headed windows. In the east wall of the Chancel is a five-light pointed window with intersecting tracery, beneath a hood-mould. A date stone is set in the wall below. The central panel of the east wall projects slightly and the walls to either side are set at a slight angle.
Building Fabric and Features
Nave
20th century 4-bay
Clerestory
20th century
Aisle
20th century north
Chancel
20th century
Lady Chapel
19th century chancel of the old church
Vestry
20th century north
Organ (component)
20th century chamber
Boiler Room
20th century beneath organ chamber
Stained Glass
20th Century
East window – Christ enthroned with angels either side, the Evangelists and servicemen beneath. A WWI memorial signed by James Eadie-Reid [1868-1928], who also painted the reredos. A splendid piece with jewel-like colour.
Stained Glass
Lady Chapel East window – Crucifixion – attributed by Dr Neil Moat to Messrs. Heaton, Butler & Bayne, one of the major London studios, one of their more standard works.
Building Materials
Brick
20th century red
Ashlar
20th century dressings and details
Concrete
20th century nave roof tiles
Slate
20th century tiles to roofs of south organ chamber and chancel
Clay
20th century ridge tiles
Interior
Interior Description
Entry through the west door opens into a glazed oak panelled lobby, with a boarded ceiling, in the north-west corner of the church. The design has Arts and Crafts accents. The broad aisle joins onto the nave through wide pointed arcades on octagonal stone piers, creating a wide open space. The north aisle windows, though square-headed, are beneath segmental brick arches.
The nave is a huge space seated with quite plain, fixed pine (?) pews on a level platform of herringbone wood tiles. Plain quarry tiles pave the aisles, with carpet at the west end. Some pews have been removed at the front. Lofty ceilings are formed by a boarded pointed barrel vault, with king-post trusses. The walls are of exposed yellow brick with ashlar dressings and red brick accents, such as lines of red brick following the stone arches. Uncarved stops to the hoodmoulds are evident to the north, over the arcade. Whilst to the south a blind arcade contains recessed segmental red brick arches into which are set groups of three stone lancets at ground level. Wall-mounted heaters and fixed brick benches are built into the recesses in the walls. The arch to the west end is smaller and has an external door screened behind a curtain. The clerestory is above a continuous stone cill. All of the glass is clear other than the two east windows. Brass light fittings with glass shades are suspended from each bay.
The Lady Chapel is situated at the east end of the north aisle through a pointed arch, just beyond a north door which leads to the north lobby and the former choir vestry, now used as a flower room (it has a boarded ceiling and herringbone wood-block floor). The chapel is an attractive space with a tile and marble floor and an altar raised behind oak baluster rails and a boarded barrel vault overhead. A blind arch with stone surround can be seen in the north chapel wall. A screen beyond the altar forms a vestry space behind, with a double-arched stone sedilia in the south wall. A door behind the screen to the south leads into the chancel.
In the nave, a wide moulded stone chancel arch, with a red brick cross in the wall above, marks the chancel which is raised by three steps behind a low sandstone wall. The ceiling is formed by a boarded barrel vault. Carpet covers the floor tiles along the central aisle. Choir stalls with panelled fronts are raised on platforms either side. The organ is positioned behind those to the south. To the north, an opening into the chapel formed by segmental stone lintel supported on octagonal pillars which Pevsner notes as a ‘nice opening’. A pointed door with stone surround, before the sanctuary step, leads to the vestry/chapel. To the south side a segmental headed arch surrounds a blank recess. The altar is raised on three further steps. The far east wall is slightly curved.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
20th century simple oak table; carved altar with open tracery in Lady Chapel, from original church?
Reredos
20th century Painted figurative altar triptych by James Eadie-Reid, oil with oak wings. Crucifixion with figures including service men and women, land girls and nurses to either side. A WWI war memorial with the east window.
Pulpit
20th century sandstone, built into chancel wall, with carved inscription
Lectern
20th century carved oak eagle, relocated from another church, a WWI memorial for Lt. Derry, c 1918
Font (component)
19th century octagonal stone with carved symbols supported by Purbeck marble shafts with foliate capitals, flat oak cover, raised upon two steps, positioned in north-west corner, 1883.
Rail
20th century simple carved oak rails; turned oak balusters in Lady Chapel
Organ (component)
19th century 1893 Wadsworth and Bro, Manchester. In memory of George Meakin, the builder of the original church, as recorded by plaque.
Bells
Churchyard
Grid reference: SJ 889 466
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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