All Saints, Kedleston

All Saints is a Grade I redundant church beside Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust: the last building of the medieval village cleared for the hall, and the burial church of the Curzon family.

Overview

Historic England lists a parish church, now redundant, of the twelfth, late thirteenth, fourteenth and early seventeenth centuries, restored in 1885, with a north aisle of 1907–09 by G. F. Bodley. Walls are coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings; roofs are Welsh slate with stone-coped gables. The plan is cruciform: central tower, nave with north aisle, transepts, clerestoried chancel and north vestry. The twelfth-century south doorway has colonnettes with beakheads, a round arch with zigzag, and a defaced tympanum with traces of beasts. Transepts have late thirteenth-century windows of three stepped lancets. The chancel priest’s door has wrought-iron work dated 1613.

The medieval village was demolished in 1759 by Nathaniel Curzon for Kedleston Hall; he retained the church as the family burial place. The church was declared redundant on 1 April 1983 and vested in the Churches Conservation Trust on 18 April 1989. Curzon monuments include work associated with Robert Adam and the 1909 memorial commissioned by Lord Curzon for Mary Curzon. The hall is in National Trust care. The church has level access to the main areas.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1335331
• Derbyshire HER MDR4711