All Saints, Hereford
All Saints, Hereford
All Saints on High Street, Hereford, is a Grade II* parish church of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, in the Diocese of Hereford. Official listing is Grade II*, not Grade I.
- Location
- Hereford, Herefordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Herefordshire
- City / town
- Hereford
- Address
- High Street, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR4 9AA
- Postcode
- HR4 9AA
- Built
- 13th and 14th centuries
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Hereford
- Parish
- All Saints, Hereford
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Gothic, with Perpendicular windows
- Materials
- Coursed rubble and ashlar sandstone; slate and tile roof; ashlar tower and spire
- Grid reference
- SO 508 400
- Opening hours
- Monday to Saturday 8am to 4pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of coursed rubble and ashlar sandstone with slate and tile roofs and an ashlar tower and ribbed spire: nave, chancel, south aisles, tower with spire, north and south chapels. The north front has five Perpendicular windows. Interior fittings include a pulpit of about 1621, fourteenth-century stalls with misericords, a sixteenth-century font (David Garrick was baptised here in 1717), a seventeenth-century reredos, fifteenth-century tiles and wall painting, and a chained library of some 300 books, the second largest in England after Hereford Cathedral. Listed Grade II* on 10 June 1952 (NHLE 1025105).