All Saints' Church, Hoole

Coordinates: 53°12′04″N 2°52′22″W / 53.2012°N 2.8727°W

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All Saints Church, Hoole


53°12′04″N 2°52′22″W / 53.2012°N 2.8727°W / 53.2012; -2.8727
OS grid reference	SJ 418 674
Location	Hoole Road, Hoole, Chester, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	allsaints.church
History
Status	Parish church
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	23 July 1998
Architect(s)	S. W. Dawkes John Douglas and F. (or J.) Walley
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1867
Completed	1912
Specifications
Materials	Red sandstone Grey-green slate roofs
Administration
Province	York
Diocese	Chester
Archdeaconry	Chester
Deanery	Chester
Parish	All Saints, Hoole
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Rev Craig Gaudion
Curate(s)	vacant
Laity
Business manager	Andy Warren
Parish administrator	Helen Dymond

All Saints Church, Hoole, is in Hoole Road, Hoole, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the diocese of Chester,^[1] and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.^[2]

History

The church was built in 1867 to a design by S. W. Dawkes.^[3] In 1911 a vestry was added.^[2] The following year the south aisle was built; it was designed by John Douglas in collaboration with F. (or J.) Walley, but not completed until after Douglas' death.^[3] The furnishing of the church was reordered in the later part of the 20th century by Graham Holland.^[2]

Architecture

The church is built in red sandstone with grey-green slate roofs. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with north and south aisles, all under separate roofs, a chancel, a southwest tower with a broach spire, a flat roofed vestry at the southeast, and a north porch with a gable. The windows have plate tracery.^[2]

Bells

The tower holds a ring of six bells hung for full circle ringing. The five original bells were cast by John Warner & Sons of Cripplegate and bear inscriptions dating their casting to 1867 (third and fourth) and 1868 (second, fifth and tenor). The tenor bell weighs approximately 7½ cwt (840 lb or ~380 kg) and is in the note of B. A new treble, cast by Mears & Stainbank of Whitechapel, was installed in 1925 completing the ring of six.^[4]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to All Saints, Hoole.

^ All Saints, Hoole, Church of England, retrieved 26 March 2011
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Historic England, "Church of All Saints, Chester (1375853)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 27 June 2013
^ ^a ^b Hubbard, Edward (1991), The Work of John Douglas, London: The Victorian Society, pp. 203–204, 277, ISBN 0-901657-16-6
^ "Hoole, Cheshire, All Saints". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 5 June 2024.

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