All Saints, Wyke Regis
All Saints, Wyke Regis
All Saints is a Grade I parish church on Portland Road, Wyke Regis, Weymouth, in the Diocese of Salisbury. It was the mother church of Weymouth until other town churches were built in the nineteenth century.
- Location
- Wyke Regis, Dorset
- Country
- England
- County
- Dorset
- City / town
- Wyke Regis
- Address
- Portland Road, Wyke Regis, Dorset, DT4 9ES
- Postcode
- DT4 9ES
- Built
- Rebuilt 1455 on a site recorded from 1172
- Consecrated
- 19 October 1455
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Salisbury
- Parish
- Wyke Regis All Saints with St Edmund
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Portland stone ashlar; lead roofs, stone slate to porch
- Grid reference
- SY 662 777
- Opening hours
- Open daily from 9.30am to 5pm (4pm in winter).
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England and the Dorset Historic Environment Record record a church entirely rebuilt and rededicated in 1455 and structurally almost unaltered since. Wikipedia, citing the listing, gives the reconsecration date as 19 October 1455 and notes a church on the site from 1172. The Royal Commission described it as a remarkably consistent and unchanged fifteenth-century design. Fabric is Portland stone ashlar with lead roofs and stone slate to the porch.
The regular plan has a five-bay nave continuous with the chancel, north and south aisles, a four-stage west tower, south porch and north-east vestry. The tower has string courses, set-back buttresses, a crenellated parapet and a north-east octagonal stair turret. The west doorway is blocked beneath a lofty three-light window. English oak pews with individual carvings date from a reseating of 1859, when a gallery was removed. A lychgate of 1896 is by George Fellowes Prynne.