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All Saints

All Saints

City Centre

Bristol

Early C12 west end of nave, C15 east nave and aisles, 1716 north-east tower by William Paul, completed by George Townesend, lantern rebuilt by Luke Henwood in 1807, chancel rebuilt mid C19.

Architectural Features

C12 west nave

C15 work forms an unclerestoreyed hall church, with W aisled nave

The two W nave bays are Norman, the remaining are Perpendicular Gothic

Mid C15 three-bay N elevation, a weathered plinth with buttresses rising through an open quatrefoil parapet to crocketed pinnacles, large 4-light windows with cinquefoil heads, and a corbel table above a blind trefoil band

The C15 W end has a pointed doorway with splayed reveals and Tudor roses in hollow mouldings, and a label mould with angel stops and traceried spandrels

INTERIOR: mid-C19 reredos of 3 cusped arches with deep bays behind, ogee crocketed hoods and angels with scrolls to the spandrels, divided by pinnacle buttresses

to the N is a painted doorway with head stops and a ribbed door to the organ loft, and a panelled timber oriel with Tudor flowers.

5-bay nave arcade, the three E bays have piers with attached shafts, foliate capitals and pointed arches, the two W bays have stout Norman piers with wide scalloped capitals and square-section semicircular arches to a W respond

The N aisle has a moulded arch dying in to the jambs at the E end, enclosing the organ, and a drip mould below with dragon stops and Tudor flowers

at the Norman end of the nave, the aisles were built over in the early C15, forming what is now the coffee shop to the N and Glebe House (qv) to the S

late C17 communion table

stone steps up to an octagonal pulpit with Perpendicular panels and angel brackets.

Memorials: various late C18 and C19 memorials including a wall tablet to William Clutterbuck d. 1708, a panel with drapes, apron, sides and a scrolled top

and a large dresser tomb to Edward Colston d. 1721 designed by James Gibbs, a grey marble plinth carrying a finely-carved recumbent figure of a man on his elbow by Rysbrack, in front of a Tuscan aedicule with side pilasters, a bay-leaf frieze a pediment with children at the ends and a cartouche

wall tablet to Mrs Tooth Blisset d. 1805, by Flaxman, a half-reclining figure under a segmental arch with pointed hoodmould.

The Norman work is most important surviving in a Bristol church (Gomme).

The tower replaced a medieval one.