All Saints Church Madeley

Image: © Brian Deegan Taken: 24 Mar 2019

Parish church. C12 core, extensively remodelled C14 and C15, chancel rebuilt in 1872 by Charles Lynam when the whole building was restored. Pink sandstone ashlar, stone slate, plain tile and lead roofs. Nave, chancel, west tower engaged to north and south aisles, north and south transepts, north chancel chapel, south porch and, in space between north chancel chapel and transept, an organ chamber. Tower: probably c.1400, with stepped buttresses and rectangular stair turret at south-west corner; restored embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles and gargoyles beneath, 2-light trefoil-headed openings to belfry; west window with Perpendicular tracery and carved heads as labels; west door under Tudor arch. Nave: partly C12 fabric, but only C15 clerestory with restored tracery and crenellated parapet is visible above later aisles, both of two bays, that on north now with Decorated window tracery (renewed c.1870) and that on south Perpendicular, of same build as clerestory; C14 north doorway with double chamfering and hoodmould. Long gabled south porch probably extended in C17 (see straight joint) but south door C15. Both transepts are also C15 with renewed Perpendicular tracery and grotesque heads as labels. Chancel: in two bays; 1872 rebuilding of C13 structure in Decorated style, reticulated tracery. North chancel chapel: (now vestry) C15 and in space between it and transept a small organ chamber of 1872. https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101206195-church-of-all-saints-madeley#.XJfFlyj7SHs http://www.allsaints-madeley.org.uk/

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