All Saints, Boughton Aluph
All Saints, Boughton Aluph
All Saints is a Grade I parish church on Church Lane in Boughton Aluph, near Ashford in Kent, in the Diocese of Canterbury and the parish of Boughton Aluph and Eastwell.
- Location
- Boughton Aluph, Kent
- Country
- England
- County
- Kent
- City / town
- Boughton Aluph
- Address
- Church Lane, Boughton Aluph, Kent, TN25 4EU
- Postcode
- TN25 4EU
- Built
- C13 chancel and chapel; otherwise C14 with C15 east windows; restored 1878
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Canterbury
- Parish
- Boughton Aluph and Eastwell
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Decorated and Perpendicular
- Materials
- Flint and rubble with ashlar dressings; brick porches and buttresses
- Grid reference
- TR 033 481
- Opening hours
- Repairs to the church have been completed. The church will be open weekends May to October and bank holidays. At other times a key can be obtained. The church will be open all day on May 4 2026 when we are holding our annual fund raising event - The Five Church Walk. For more information on this event visit the website www.thefivechurchwalk.co.uk.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England records a thirteenth-century chancel and chapel, otherwise fourteenth-century fabric with fifteenth-century east windows, seventeenth-century porches, and a restoration of 1878. The church is flint and rubble with rubble and ashlar dressings and brick porches and buttresses. The plan is nave, aisles, transepts, chancel, north-east chapel, crossing tower with a prominent two-stage stair turret, and north and south porches.
The west and north transept windows are of the same fourteenth-century curvilinear design, of four lights with a cinquefoil over. The north chapel has thirteenth-century lancets. The chancel east window is five-light fifteenth-century Perpendicular; the chapel east window is four-light Perpendicular. The west door sits in a fourteenth-century roll-moulded surround. Local tradition holds that a man named Adulphus built the church in the thirteenth century to replace a Saxon church, and that Sir Thomas Aldon enlarged it in the fourteenth century. The building hosts the Stour Music Festival and stands on a former pilgrims' route.