All Saints

C16, restored in 1874-76 by F. Preedy.

MATERIALS: local grey lias rubble and buff limestone in regular courses, ashlar to porch and south chapel, tile roofs, except for the slate vestry roof.

It has a deep embattled parapet with tall corner pinnacles, and is richly decorated with carved panelling and quatrefoil friezes.

North and south doorways have carved spandrels and there is a five-light straight-headed west window.

The south transept and south aisle are embattled and the aisle is buttressed and has gargoyles renewed in the 1970s.

The north transept retains a five-light C14 window with intersecting tracery.

INTERIOR: the porch has a flat panelled ceiling with large C16 central boss showing the Five Wounds of Christ.

The doorway into the nave, within a small vestibule at the base of the tower, is C12, with round arch on responds with capitals.

The chancel arch is C14 style, of which the inner order is on corbels, but only the upper part is medieval.

The C15 nave arcades are similar to each other but the north is lower.

The C14 doorway from chancel to vestry has two orders of decorative cusping.

The nave has a parquet floor, the chancel and south chapel have a C19 encaustic-tile floor by Godwin of Lugwardine.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: there is a good Perpendicular font with octagonal bowl decorated with quatrefoils on an arcaded stem.

The polygonal stone pulpit of 1875 is also by Preedy, with figures of the Evangelists in niches, and angels in the spandrels.

The 1905 wooden chancel screen is by C. Ford Whitcombe: it has rood figures, of which the crucifixion was carved at Oberammergau and the Virgin and St John were carved by Richard Haughton of Worcester.

There are numerous wall monuments, mostly of the C18 and C19.

One small C14 stained glass figure of Christ is in a tracery light in the north aisle, above figures of SS Oswald and Wilfrid by Percy Bacon of London.

The remainder of the stained glass is late C19 and early C20.

It has some C12 masonry in the west wall of the nave but is otherwise C14

C15, with porch and chapel added c1505-10, at the expense of Abbot Clement Wych, last abbot of Evesham Abbey, Lichfield.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of All Saints, Evesham, is listed at Grade I for the following principal reasons: * It is a substantial and well-preserved medieval town church that contributes to the historic integrity of the former abbey precinct, thus possessing strong group value. * For the extent of its surviving medieval fabric, including C15 nave arcades, tower

spire. * It has fine C16 work in the porch and south chapel.