All Saints, Hanley

All Saints is a Grade II Gothic Revival parish church on Leek Road, Joiners Square, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, in the Diocese of Lichfield. It now sits in the parish of Stoke upon Trent and Fenton.

Overview

Historic England records a church of 1910–13 by Gerald Horsley, in red brick with ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof with coped gables. The plan is a two-bay chancel with organ chamber, north chapel and vestry, and a four-bay nave with arcades, clerestory and north aisle (the south aisle was never built). Windows are mainly pointed lancets with stone mullions. The west gable has an octagonal ashlar external pulpit under a canopy and a traceried three-light window. The principal entrance is a rusticated Tudor-arched doorway with traceried tympanum.

The interior has exposed brickwork with ashlar dressings, a moulded chancel arch with a brick cross above, and wooden wagon vaults to chancel and north chapel. The nave has a pointed arched wooden vault and an early-fourteenth-century-style north arcade of octagonal piers. The east window is a First World War memorial, with a triptych on the same theme below. Local histories note that the foundation stone was laid on St Andrew’s Day (30 November) 1911, that Horsley was a founding member of the Art Workers Guild, and that the parish was formed in 1913 from parts of Hanley St John, Shelton and Wellington.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1245925
• The Potteries: All Saints, Joiners Square