All Saints Church, Joiners Square, Hanley

All Saints Church, Joiners Square

photo: Steve Birks  Feb 2007

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Church. 1910-13, by Gerald Horsley. Gothic Revival style. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with coped gables. Chancel with organ chamber, north chapel and vestry, nave with arcades and clerestory, north aisle. Windows are mainly pointed arched lancets with stone mullions.

Chancel, 2 bays, has east gable with slightly projecting centre and slightly splayed flank walls. 5-light east window with intersecting tracery. South side has a 2-light window. To west, lean-to organ chamber with flat headed 2-light window. Lean-to north chapel has a 3-light east window with a flat-headed 3-light window below it. Gabled vestry has a 3-light flat headed window to east, and 2 similar windows and a single light window to north. Nave, 4 bays, has buttresses.

South side has pointed arched west door with hood mould, and to east, 3 plain triple lancets, all set in blind arches. Clerestory has 4-light flat headed windows on each side. West gable has octagonal ashlar external pulpit under a canopy, and above, a traceried 3-light window with hood mould. North aisle has three flat headed windows, 3-lights. West end has principal entrance, with rusticated Tudor arched doorway, traceried tympanum and spandrels. On each side, a flat headed 2-light window with tracery. These and the doorway are under a common label mould. Above, an inscribed panel, and over it, a traceried flat headed niche containing a figure.

INTERIOR: Exposed brickwork with ashlar dressings. Chancel has moulded arch with simple responds, and cross formed in brickwork above. Wooden wagon vault. East end has chamfered brick surround to World War I memorial stained glass window, with triptych on the same theme below. North side has segment arched opening to north chapel, with octagonal columns and incised tympanum. Pointed arched doorway to east. South side has segment arched door with window above, and chamfered pointed arched organ opening to west.

North chapel has double chamfered pointed arch with imposts, and wooden wagon vault. Stained glass east window. North side has segmental pointed arch to blank recess. Vestry has double sedilia with central shaft.

Nave has pointed arched wooden vault. North arcade, early C14 style, has octagonal piers with moulded capitals, and double chamfered arches with hood moulds and uncarved stops. South side has blind arcade with brick piers and arches, with doorway to west. North aisle has open truss roof. West end has canted wooden internal porch, part glazed.

FITTINGS: Canted ashlar pulpit with inscription, integral with chancel screen wall. Octagonal ashlar pulpit with traceried panel, on round stem with flanking Purbeck marble shafts and foliage capitals. Plain wooden benches.

 

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West end has principal entrance, with rusticated Tudor arched doorway,
traceried tympanum and spandrels.

 

West gable has octagonal ashlar external pulpit under a canopy, and above, a traceried 3-light window with hood mould.

 

photos: Steve Birks  June 2000

All Saints, Leek Road (SE). By Gerald Horsley, 1910-13. Brick, without a tower. The S aisle has not yet been built. Clerestory and aisle windows differ, not only in pattern, but also in style - i.e. 1910 carried its antiquarian learning lightly.
Picturesque NE vestry. An open-air pulpit on the W wall of the nave. Impressively high interior with boldly wide chancel arch. Nice openings from chancel to N chapel.

Gothic Revival style. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with coped gables. Chancel with organ chamber, north chapel and vestry, nave with arcades and clerestory, north aisle. Windows are mainly pointed arched lancets with stone mullions

Pevsner: Buildings of England
 

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