All Saints Church, Great Saughall, is located in Church Road in the

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Saughall and Shotwick Park Saughall is a village and former civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Located between Shotwick and Blacon, it is approximately north west of Chester and from Sealand ...

, formerly

Saughall Saughall is a village and former civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Located between Shotwick and Blacon, it is approximately north west of Chester and from Sealan ...

and before that

Great Saughall Saughall is a village and former civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Located between Shotwick and Blacon, it is approximately north west of Chester and from Sealand ...

, in the county of

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

, England. It is an active

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in the deanery of Wirral South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the

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. The church is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade II

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History

All Saints was built as a

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to St Michael's Church, Shotwick. The foundation stone was laid on 31 July 1895 by the Honorable Mrs Trelawny of Shotwick House. It was designed by the

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architect J. Medland Taylor, and built at an estimated cost of £1,288 (). It opened for worship in 1896, and was

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, on 23 October 1901. The church was expanded in 1909–10, the architect being Isaac Taylor. The expansion consisted of a north

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, a spire on the tower and, at the east end, a

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, organ chamber, and

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. The parishioners paid for the new aisle, and the rest was donated by the Vernon family, then living at Shotwick House. The expanded church was consecrated by the bishop of Chester on 4 January 1911. All Saints became a separate parish in its own right in 1921. During the last years of the 20th century the aisle was partitioned off to provide a meeting room with modern facilities.

Architecture

The church is constructed in red

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The body of the church has a tiled roof, and the tower is roofed in Lakeland green

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. Its plan consists of a four-

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nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

and north aisle with a projecting

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at the west end, a south porch, north and south

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s, a short chancel with a polygonal

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, and a central tower. The tower contains louvred bell openings and a

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table. It is surmounted by a

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containing more louvred openings. The windows in the nave are triple lancets; those in the apse are double lancets, the east window having its base higher than the lateral windows. The windows in the aisle have either two or four lights. Inside the church is a four-bay

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. In the chancel is an ''

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made by

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. On the ceiling of the apse is a painting by Herman Saloman depicting the Angels Appearing to the Shepherds. The two-

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organ was built in 1918 by Poyser of

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External features

The churchyard contains five war graves, containing four soldiers of

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, and an

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References

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