page_title: All Saints Church, Benhilton
section_title: Architectural features
hierarchical_section_title: All Saints Church, Benhilton / Architectural features
caption_attribution_description: English: All Saints church Benhilton - interior. The church 938053 was designed by S S Teulon in the Gothic Revival style and built between 1863 and 1866. It is grade 2 listed.
context_page_description: All Saints Church, Benhilton is a Grade II* listed church built 1863 to 1867 in Sutton, Greater London in the Sutton parish of Benhilton. Historic England describe the church as "a fine example of mid-Victorian church-building by an important architect of the Gothic Revival", Samuel Teulon.
context_section_description: The church is made up a wide nave with rounded clerestorey windows, a chancel, north and south aisles, Lady Chapel, vestries with organ chamber above, imposing west tower, and north and south porches. It is brick built with flint facing externally, natural stone dressings with trussed timber roof covered with plain clay tiles.
  Historic England (formerly English Heritage) describes the church as "a fine example of mid-Victorian church-building by an important architect of the Gothic Revival. It is unaltered externally, and possesses a flint and masonry construction. It has a number of fixtures of interest, including some important 1960s stained glass and a striking roof."
  The church has a large four-stage tower at its western end.  The tower features a doorway and a four-light window which has, like the other principal windows of the church, flowing tracery. There are three clocks in the third stage of the tower on its north, south and west faces under a gable containing flowing tracery. In the belfry stage the opening on each face is a two-light reticulated window. The tower has diagonal buttresses to its west face, and a NE stair turret which rises above the plain parapets of the top of the tower. The aisles have lean-to roofs and above these, sandwiched in a narrow band below the eaves of the nave, is a clerestory with circular windows with alternating triskele and mouchette-and-quatrefoil infilling. The aisle windows are broad and have flowing tracery in the three lights, alternating in design in each bay. The southern chapel and northern vestry/organ chamber lie under their own gables and have florid three-light fenestration similar to that in the aisles. Both porches have moulded outer doorways. The northern porch is vaulted. An unusual feature of the exterior walls is the widespread traces of former putlog holes, no doubt used for the scaffolding during the construction of the building. These are often found on medieval buildings but were usually carefully filled in and obliterated on Victorian ones. Here they are made a feature of with the side pieces and cappings clearly evident. The hood stops of the arch heads have nearly all been left uncarved.
caption: All Saints Church, Benhilton - interior
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