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'''All Saints Church''' is the ] ] of ] in the borough of ] in ], England.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All Saints Wellington |url=http://allsaints-wellington.org/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=All Saints Wellington |language=en-US}}</ref> It forms part of the ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lichfield |first=Diocese of |title=Find a Church |url=https://www.lichfield.anglican.org/acny/telford/620586/wellington-all-saints |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.lichfield.anglican.org |language=en}}</ref> It is an active place of worship and community hub<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-03 |title=Students to perform concert in aid of church organ restoration fund |url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/your-world/2024/07/03/students-to-perform-concert-in-aid-of-church-organ-restoration-fund/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.shropshirestar.com |language=en}}</ref> for the town and outlying suburbs around the town.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All Saints Parish Centre {{!}} Live Well Telford |url=https://livewell.telford.gov.uk/Services/2408/All-Saints-Parish-Ce |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=livewell.telford.gov.uk}}</ref> It is a grade II* ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, Wellington - 1033317 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1033317 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}}</ref> and sits a short distance north of Wellington town centre. It is also close to both the ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-05-22 |title=Find us |url=http://allsaints-wellington.org/findus/#:~:text=All%20Saints%20Church%20is%20situated,open%20in%20a%20new%20tab).&text=Follow%20the%20road%20round%20until,a%20T%20junction,%20turn%20right.&text=After%20the%203rd%20one%20there,the%20church%20is%20down%20here.&text=From%20the%20Princess%20Royal%20roundabout,just%20past%20the%20catholic%20church. |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=All Saints Wellington |language=en-US}}</ref> '''All Saints Church''' is the ] ] of ] in the borough of ] in ], England.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All Saints Wellington |url=http://allsaints-wellington.org/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=All Saints Wellington }}</ref> It is in the ],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lichfield |first=Diocese of |title=Find a Church |url=https://www.lichfield.anglican.org/acny/telford/620586/wellington-all-saints |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.lichfield.anglican.org}}</ref> and is an active place of worship and community hub for the town and outlying areas.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-03 |title=Students to perform concert in aid of church organ restoration fund |url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/your-world/2024/07/03/students-to-perform-concert-in-aid-of-church-organ-restoration-fund/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.shropshirestar.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=All Saints Parish Centre {{!}} Live Well Telford |url=https://livewell.telford.gov.uk/Services/2408/All-Saints-Parish-Ce |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=livewell.telford.gov.uk}}</ref> The church is grade II* ],<ref name=nhle-church>{{NHLE |num=103317 | desc=Church of All Saints |access-date=2025-01-14}}</ref> and sits a short distance north of Wellington town centre, close to both the ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-05-22 |title=Find us |url=http://allsaints-wellington.org/findus/#:~:text=All%20Saints%20Church%20is%20situated,open%20in%20a%20new%20tab).&text=Follow%20the%20road%20round%20until,a%20T%20junction,%20turn%20right.&text=After%20the%203rd%20one%20there,the%20church%20is%20down%20here.&text=From%20the%20Princess%20Royal%20roundabout,just%20past%20the%20catholic%20church. |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=All Saints Wellington }}</ref>


== History == == History ==
All Saints Church has undergone three separate rebuilds during its existence. The present building is the third incarnation of the church to occupy the same site as the previous two incarnations over the past thousand years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Giant Places - All Saints Parish Church |url=https://wellingtonwalkwithgiants.co.uk/giant-places/all-saints-parish-church/#:~:text=The%20current%20All%20Saints%20church,Reverend%20John%20Eyton%20became%20vicar. |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Wellingtons Walking With Giants |language=en-GB}}</ref> The original church building existed until the outbreak of the ] and was subsequently destroyed by both ] and ]'s men.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-06-28 |title=Architecture |url=http://allsaints-wellington.org/about-us/church-building/history-and-architecture/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=All Saints Wellington |language=en-US}}</ref> It was not until 1740 and 1748, a new church was considered for the site of the then-destroyed church.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-07-28 |title=History |url=http://allsaints-wellington.org/about-us/church-building/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=All Saints Wellington |language=en-US}}</ref> The current church was built around 1790 and was once served by ] in 1802, who became the ] of the church for a time from 1823 until 1841.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wellington: Churches {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol11/pp238-242 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> The church underwent slight refurbishments and extensions in 1898.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Builder/Fn5iro0856cC?hl=en&gbpv=1 |title=The Builder |date=1898 |publication-date=April 23, 1898 |pages=400 |language=en}}</ref> The church was given Grade II* listed status by ] in April 1983.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stuff |first=Good |title=Church of All Saints, Wellington, Telford and Wrekin |url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101033317-church-of-all-saints-wellington |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk}}</ref> In 2017, the church was one of many parish churches across the United Kingdom to take part in the ] ] by performing ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Music - BBC Music Day - Bell ringers unite for BBC Music Day |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4pkF2Q18rTm8XSq97PF26mY/bell-ringers-unite-for-bbc-music-day |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> All Saints Church has undergone three separate rebuilds during its existence. The present building is the third incarnation of the church to occupy the same site as the previous two incarnations over the past thousand years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Giant Places - All Saints Parish Church |url=https://wellingtonwalkwithgiants.co.uk/giant-places/all-saints-parish-church/#:~:text=The%20current%20All%20Saints%20church,Reverend%20John%20Eyton%20became%20vicar. |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Wellingtons Walking With Giants}}</ref>{{unreliable source|date=January 2025}} The original church building existed until the outbreak of the ] and was subsequently destroyed by both ] and ]'s men.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-06-28 |title=Architecture |url=http://allsaints-wellington.org/about-us/church-building/history-and-architecture/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=All Saints Wellington}}</ref> It was not until 1740 and 1748 that a new church was considered for the site of the then-destroyed church.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-07-28 |title=History |url=http://allsaints-wellington.org/about-us/church-building/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=All Saints Wellington}}</ref> The existing church was built around 1790 and was once served by ] in 1802, who became the ] of the church for a time from 1823 until 1841.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wellington: Churches {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol11/pp238-242 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> The church underwent slight refurbishments and extensions in 1898.<ref>{{cite journal |title=General Building News: Proposed Restoration of Parish Church Wellington |journal=The Builder |date=23 April 1898 |volume=74 |page=400 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Builder/Fn5iro0856cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA400&printsec=frontcover&dq=wellington |access-date=14 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref> The church was given Grade II* ] by ] in April 1983.<ref name=nhle-church /> In 2017, the church was one of many parish churches across the United Kingdom to take part in the ]'s ] by ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Music - BBC Music Day - Bell ringers unite for BBC Music Day |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4pkF2Q18rTm8XSq97PF26mY/bell-ringers-unite-for-bbc-music-day |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=BBC}}</ref>


== Lychgate == ==Architecture ==
The church was designed by George Steuart in ] style. It is built in ] stone, a type of ], and consists of a ] with an ] and a tower behind the west front. The west front has three ] with giant ] ]s carrying a ]. In the centre is a doorway flanked by windows, all with square heads, and above are ]s. The tower has two stages with paired ] pilasters, clock faces, and a small dome. Along the sides of the church are two tiers of windows, the upper windows round-headed, and in the apse is a tripartite pilastered window. Inside the church are galleries on three sides.<ref>{{citation | last =Newman| first =John| last2 = Pevsner | author1-link=John Newman (architectural historian) | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link = Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title =Shropshire | publisher =] | year =2006 | location =New Haven and London | isbn =0-300-12083-4|page=653 }}</ref><ref name=nhle-church />
⚫ ] outside All Saints Church and off Church Street, Wellington]]
⚫ Located near Church Street, is a ] which was originally built between the ] and ] centuries. The lychgate includes piers, steps and an archway. It is also additionally adorned with a ] dedicated to the soldiers who fought and died in ] and this memorial was added to the lychgate of the church in 1922.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wellington Lychgate |url=https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/193342 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Community: Wellington Shropshire - All Saints Lychgate War Memorial {{!}} Lives of the First World War |url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/3704/?page=8#:~:text=This%20community%20consists%20of%20the%20180%20names,,can%20be%20read%20at%20Shropshire%20Archives%20reference-https://www.shropshirearchives.org.uk |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Johnstone |first=Janet |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Shropshire_at_War_1939_45/z2DNDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=all+saints+church+wellington+shropshire+lychgate&pg=PT258&printsec=frontcover |title=Shropshire at War, 1939–45 |date=2018-05-30 |publisher=Pen and Sword |isbn=978-1-4738-5898-5 |language=en}}</ref> It is a Grade II listed building.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gate Piers, Steps, Walls and War Memorial Lychgate, Wellington - 1033318 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1033318?section=official-list-entry |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}}</ref> The gate also serves as an entry point between the church and Church Street.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-05-19 |title=What to expect at Church |url=http://allsaints-wellington.org/what-to-expect/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=All Saints Wellington |language=en-US}}</ref>


== Notable graves == == Lychgate ==
⚫ ] in All Saints Church grounds off Church Street, Wellington]]

⚫ The gate ] flank the southwest entrance to the churchyard, from Church Street,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-05-19 |title=What to expect at Church |url=http://allsaints-wellington.org/what-to-expect/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=All Saints Wellington}}</ref> and were built in the late 18th or early 19th century. They are in stone, and have a panelled ], a ] ], and a hemispherical cap. Steps flanked by ] stone walls lead up to a memorial ] that was added in 1922. The lychgate has stone walls, a timber superstructure with round arches, a ] ] with a cross ], and a tiled roof. On the arches are inscriptions, and on the inside walls are bronze plaques with inscriptions and the names of those lost in the two World Wars.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wellington Lychgate |url=https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/193342 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Community: Wellington Shropshire - All Saints Lychgate War Memorial {{!}} Lives of the First World War |url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/3704/?page=8#:~:text=This%20community%20consists%20of%20the%20180%20names,,can%20be%20read%20at%20Shropshire%20Archives%20reference-https://www.shropshirearchives.org.uk |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Johnstone |first=Janet |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Shropshire_at_War_1939_45/z2DNDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=all+saints+church+wellington+shropshire+lychgate&pg=PT258&printsec=frontcover |title=Shropshire at War, 1939–45 |date=2018-05-30 |publisher=Pen and Sword |isbn=978-1-4738-5898-5}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=January 2025}} The "Gate Piers, Steps, Walls and War Memorial Lychgate" are grade II listed as one entity.<ref name=nhle-gate>{{NHLE|desc=Gate Piers, Steps, Walls and War Memorial Lychgate|num=1033318 | access-date=2025-01-14}}</ref>
* ] (December 1655 - February 1718), ] politician of the ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Forester (1655-1718) - Find a Grave... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192779089/william-forester |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}}</ref>
* ] (1690 - November 1758), landowner and Whig politician of ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Forester (1690-1758) - Find a Grave... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192779225/william-forester |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}}</ref>
* ] (February 1717 - July 1774), longest serving ] for ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brooke Forester (1717-1771) - Find a Grave... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192779237/brooke-forester |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}}</ref>


== See also == == See also ==
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== References == == References ==
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== Further reading ==

* http://allsaints-wellington.org/about-us/church-building/bells/
* https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol11/pp238-242


== External links == == External links ==

* {{official website|http://www.allsaints-wellington.org/}} * {{official website|http://www.allsaints-wellington.org/}}
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Church in Shropshire, England

Church in Telford and Wrekin, England
All Saints Church, Wellington
All Saints Church, Wellington
Dark stone building with high triangular pediment and clock, a few nearby airy trees and lawns to front against a light skyThe parish church of All Saints in Wellington
All Saints Church, Wellington is located in ShropshireAll Saints Church, WellingtonAll Saints Church, WellingtonLocated in Shropshire
52°42′07″N 2°31′04″W / 52.702042°N 2.517782°W / 52.702042; -2.517782
LocationWellington, Telford and Wrekin
CountryEngland
DenominationChurch of England
Websitewww.allsaints-wellington.org
History
StatusActive
Founded1790 (1790)
DedicationAll Saints
Dedicated1758
Consecrated1758
Past bishop(s)Edward Pryce Owen
Architecture
Functional statusParish Church
Heritage designationGrade II*
DesignatedApril 1983
Architect(s)George Steuart
StyleRevivalist style
Completed1758
Construction cost£3,755.14 (1748)
Specifications
Capacity300
Bells8 (1713 - 1890)
Tenor bell weight242kg - 827kg
Administration
ProvinceCanterbury
DioceseLichfield
ParishWellington
Clergy
Vicar(s)Revd Tim Carter
Priest(s)Revd Ellie Cheetham-Wilkinson

All Saints Church is the Church of England parish church of Wellington in the borough of Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, England. It is in the Diocese of Lichfield, and is an active place of worship and community hub for the town and outlying areas. The church is grade II* listed, and sits a short distance north of Wellington town centre, close to both the Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line and Wellington railway station.

History

All Saints Church has undergone three separate rebuilds during its existence. The present building is the third incarnation of the church to occupy the same site as the previous two incarnations over the past thousand years. The original church building existed until the outbreak of the English Civil War and was subsequently destroyed by both Oliver Cromwell and Charles II's men. It was not until 1740 and 1748 that a new church was considered for the site of the then-destroyed church. The existing church was built around 1790 and was once served by Edward Pryce Owen in 1802, who became the bishop of the church for a time from 1823 until 1841. The church underwent slight refurbishments and extensions in 1898. The church was given Grade II* listed status by Historic England in April 1983. In 2017, the church was one of many parish churches across the United Kingdom to take part in the BBC's Music Day UK by ringing the bells.

Architecture

The church was designed by George Steuart in Neoclassical style. It is built in Grinshill stone, a type of sandstone, and consists of a nave with an apse and a tower behind the west front. The west front has three bays with giant Tuscan pilasters carrying a pediment. In the centre is a doorway flanked by windows, all with square heads, and above are lunettes. The tower has two stages with paired Ionic pilasters, clock faces, and a small dome. Along the sides of the church are two tiers of windows, the upper windows round-headed, and in the apse is a tripartite pilastered window. Inside the church are galleries on three sides.

Lychgate

Dark timber half structure with tiled roof and white vertical infill panels close to road having lawns and path towards the church in background against a light sky
The Grade II listed lychgate in All Saints Church grounds off Church Street, Wellington

The gate piers flank the southwest entrance to the churchyard, from Church Street, and were built in the late 18th or early 19th century. They are in stone, and have a panelled frieze, a moulded cornice, and a hemispherical cap. Steps flanked by coped stone walls lead up to a memorial lychgate that was added in 1922. The lychgate has stone walls, a timber superstructure with round arches, a timber framed gable with a cross finial, and a tiled roof. On the arches are inscriptions, and on the inside walls are bronze plaques with inscriptions and the names of those lost in the two World Wars. The "Gate Piers, Steps, Walls and War Memorial Lychgate" are grade II listed as one entity.

See also

References

  1. "All Saints Wellington". All Saints Wellington. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  2. Lichfield, Diocese of. "Find a Church". www.lichfield.anglican.org. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  3. "Students to perform concert in aid of church organ restoration fund". www.shropshirestar.com. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  4. "All Saints Parish Centre | Live Well Telford". livewell.telford.gov.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  5. ^ Historic England. "Church of All Saints (103317)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  6. "Find us". All Saints Wellington. 22 May 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  7. "Giant Places - All Saints Parish Church". Wellingtons Walking With Giants. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  8. "Architecture". All Saints Wellington. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  9. "History". All Saints Wellington. 28 July 2010. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  10. "Wellington: Churches | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  11. "General Building News: Proposed Restoration of Parish Church Wellington". The Builder. 74: 400. 23 April 1898. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  12. "BBC Music - BBC Music Day - Bell ringers unite for BBC Music Day". BBC. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  13. Newman, John; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Shropshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 653, ISBN 0-300-12083-4
  14. "What to expect at Church". All Saints Wellington. 19 May 2010. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  15. "Wellington Lychgate". www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  16. "Community: Wellington Shropshire - All Saints Lychgate War Memorial | Lives of the First World War". livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  17. Johnstone, Janet (30 May 2018). Shropshire at War, 1939–45. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-4738-5898-5.
  18. Historic England. "Gate Piers, Steps, Walls and War Memorial Lychgate (1033318)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 January 2025.

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