All Saints, Gilmorton
All Saints, Gilmorton
All Saints is a Grade II* parish church on Church Drive, Gilmorton, Leicestershire, beside a scheduled motte, moat and fishponds.
- Location
- Gilmorton, Leicestershire
- Country
- England
- County
- Leicestershire
- City / town
- Gilmorton
- Address
- Church Drive, Gilmorton, Leicestershire, LE17 5LR
- Postcode
- LE17 5LR
- Built
- 14th–15th-century tower; nave, aisles and chancel 1860–61; porch 1897; tower rebuilt 1909
- Consecrated
- 1861
- Architect
- William Smith; tower rebuilt by C A Bassett-Smith
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Parish
- Gilmorton
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Granite facings with Attleborough and Ancaster stone dressings; random rubble tower with dressed-stone octagonal spire; plain slate roofs
- Opening hours
- Open daily.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England lists a fourteenth- and fifteenth-century tower with nave, aisles and chancel of 1860–61 by William Smith, a porch of 1897, and a tower rebuilt in 1909 by C. A. Bassett-Smith. Wikipedia states that the Victorian church was rededicated in 1861. Fabric is granite facings with Attleborough and Ancaster stone dressings arranged slightly polychromatically, a random rubble tower with a dressed-stone octagonal broach spire, and plain slate roofs. The unbuttressed two-stage tower has a crenellated parapet to the spire, wooden lucarnes and a weather vane.
Aisle windows are in a vigorous early fourteenth-century style. Wikipedia records stained glass by Burlison and Grylls (east window, 1878), Shrigley and Hunt (Lady Chapel, 1896) and Kempe (1884–1906). A place of worship on the site is attested from at least 1209. The church remains in daily parish use.