---
title: "All Saints, Billesley"
description: "Located in Billesley, Warwickshire. Built C12 origin; rebuilt 1692. Diocese of Coventry. Grade I. Georgian classical style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Churches Conservation Trust","Warwickshire","Billesley","Grade I","Georgian","Bernard Whalley"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/all-saints-billesley"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:18:32.664Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-09T12:31:10.220Z"
location: "Billesley, Warwickshire"
country: "England"
county: "Warwickshire"
town: "Billesley"
address: "Billesley, Warwickshire, B49 6NF"
postcode: "B49 6NF"
built: "C12 origin; rebuilt 1692"
architect: "Bernard Whalley (1692 rebuild)"
denomination: "Churches Conservation Trust"
dedications: ["All Saints"]
diocese: "Coventry"
grade: "I"
style: "Georgian classical"
materials: "Coursed blue lias rubble with ashlar dressings; steeply pitched old tile roof"
openingHours: "Open daily 10am to 4pm."
parish: "Wilmcote with Billesley"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1382704"
gridReference: "SP 147 568"
accessNotes: "Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas"
---

# All Saints, Billesley

All Saints is a Grade I redundant church in the hamlet of Billesley, Warwickshire, rebuilt as a small classical estate church in 1692 and now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

## Overview

Historic England records a church of twelfth-century origin, rebuilt in 1692 with eighteenth-century alterations, in coursed blue lias rubble with ashlar dressings and a steeply pitched old tile roof. The classical plan is a two-bay nave with east apse, west porch and south transept (originally a private pew). Re-used twelfth-century masonry includes herringbone work. The west end has a louvred bell turret with an ogival lead cupola. The interior has a ceiled roof, an elliptical arch to the vaulted apse, a bolection-moulded fireplace in the transept, eighteenth-century stalls and box pews, and a seventeenth-century west gallery. The Churches Conservation Trust attributes the 1692 rebuild to Bernard Whalley of the Billesley estate, who provided a staff gallery with a butler’s boxed seat; he and his wife Lucy lie in a vault beneath the sanctuary.

The listing highlights ex-situ carvings in the transept: a Herefordshire-school tympanum of about 1140 (a man attacked by snake and dragon, aided by a dove) and a carved cross fragment. By 1428 the medieval village had shrunk to four parishioners and the north aisle was demolished; earthworks of the deserted settlement survive as a scheduled monument. Tradition links Shakespeare’s marriage to the earlier church, but no registers survive to confirm it.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1382704](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1382704)
- [Wikipedia: All Saints Church, Billesley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints_Church,_Billesley)