page_title: All Saints' Church, Hockerill
section_title: Exterior
hierarchical_section_title: All Saints' Church, Hockerill / Architecture / Exterior
caption_attribution_description: English: All Saints' Hockerill Church, Bishop's Stortford. Architecture by Stephen Dykes Bower. West part of nave and side aisles. Three lancets on far west wall, font below.
context_page_description: All Saints' Church, Hockerill is a Grade II listed building, notable for being the first church designed by the 20th-century architect Stephen Dykes Bower. It is also notable for containing a rose window by Hugh Ray Easton and a pipe organ by Henry Willis II of Henry Willis & Sons.
context_section_description: The west front dominates the east side of Bishop's Stortford with its tall, broad central tower and distinctive steep saddleback roof, and three impressively tall lancets. The use of Kentish ragstone facings creates a monumental effect, reinforced by buttresses that flank the aisles and chancel. At the south west entrance there is a 19th-century timber lych gate, which is the only part of the original 1851 church that was not damaged by fire. Indeed, Dykes Bower's brief included the need to use the remains of the old church, a strategy he later employed when rebuilding the destroyed church of St John the Evangelist Church, Newbury.
caption: Looking down the nave to the west end
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