OS grid reference SJ 530 069 Country England Functional status Active Diocese Diocese of Hereford Archdeaconry Ludlow | Location Berrington, Shropshire Denomination Anglican Status Parish church Province Province of Canterbury Deanery Condover | |
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Website Wenlock Team of Parishes Architectural style English Gothic architecture | ||
All Saints Church is in the village of Berrington, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Condover, the archdeaconry of Ludlow, and the diocese of Hereford. Its benefice is united with those of twelve other parishes to form the Wenlock Team of Parishes. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
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History
The presence of a church in Berrington is recorded in the Domesday Book. The present church dates from the 13th century, with additions and alterations during the following two centuries. In 1858 Richard Dodson inserted a timber screen in place of a chancel arch. The church was restored in 1877 by E. Haycock, junior, when the south porch was also rebuilt.
Exterior
All Saints is constructed in red sandstone, with tiled roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a south aisle, a south porch, a two-bay chancel, and a west tower. The tower is in Perpendicular style. It has two stages, with diagonal buttresses, a battlemented parapet and a pyramidal roof. There is a three-light west window, and the bell openings contain Y-tracery. In the north wall of the nave is a single lancet window. The south porch contains the re-used former 13th-century doorway of the nave. The chancel dates from the 14th century, and its east window has three lights.
Interior
Inside the church is a three-bay arcade between the nave and the south aisle. In the south aisle is a trefoil-headed piscina. The font is Norman, and is set on the base of a Roman column. It is round and carved with the depiction of a beast. The pulpit dates from 1861–62. The stained glass in the east window dates from before 1820, and is by Betton and Evans. On the north side of the chancel is a window of 1877 by Hardman. The monuments include the effigy of a knight, dating possibly from the early 14th century. There is a later monument from the early 19th century by John Bacon, junior. The two-manual pipe organ was made in 1913 by Blackett and Howden. There is a ring of eight bells. Six of these were cast in 1796 by Thomas Mears I, and the other two in 1951 by Mears and Stainbank, all at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. A plaque records that in 1928 the existing bells were restored and rehung in memory of Gilbert Culceth Holcroft who was killed in World War I.