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All Saints, Grindon, Staffordshire

Location
(53°5′15″N, 1°52′22″W)
Grindon
SK 086 545
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Staffordshire
now Staffordshire
  • Ron Baxter

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Feature Sets
Description

Grindon is a remote village high in the Staffordshire Moorlands, situated in a loop of the River Hamps. It is surprising to find a church there that seems more suited to an urban setting, but All Saints is just that; a tall and solid ashlar building ofc.1845, built by F. and H. Francis in an early-14thc. style. Its wide nave has four-bay aisles with no clerestory, and it has a broad low chancel with a N vestry, and a tower with a tall broach spire with lucarnes at its foot. The old church was demolished in 1845, and a drawing by Buckler of 1847 shows the present building (William Salt Library SV IV 227). An undated watercolour entitled 'All Saints Church, Grindon' (William Salt Library SV IV 226b) shows a distant SW view of a church with a pinnacled tower without a spire, and a nave with a clerestory, i.e. not the present church, so presumably the old one. In the same collection is a Buckler drawing of 'One of the Capitals and remains of the Shaft of the Old Church at Grindon' (William Salt Library SV IV 228b). This shows a cylindrical pier carrying a low cushion capital with a square impost. The only Romanesque feature is a disused font bowl, at present under the tower.

History

Robert of Stafford held the third part of a hide in Grindon in 1086, described as a waste. No church or priest was recorded at that time. At some point in the 11thc.-12thc., the church came into the possession of Burton Abbey, for its patronage was surrendered in return for a pension of 14s in 1183. At the Dissolution in 1542 the abbey was still receiving the pension, which was transferred, with its other possessions, to a new College at Burton.

Benefice of Calton, Cauldon, Grindon, Waterfall and Blore Ray with Okeover.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The font is roughly shaped and simply decorated, and probably dates from the first third of the 12thc.

Bibliography
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire. Harmondsworth 1974, 138.
Staffordshire County Council, Staffordshire Views Collection, nos SV IV 228a; SV IV 228b; SV IV 226b; SV IV 227. Available online at http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=47,71124and_dad=portaland_schema=PORTAL
Victoria County History: Staffordshire. III (1970), 199-213.