Bedworth - All Saints
Interior looking east at Bedworth, entirely the work of G.F.Bodley, and
retaining several fine fittings designed by the architect, although the chancel
screen was removed in the mid 1990s and is now placed high up at the west end,
as part of the recent reordering of the spaces within the western end of nave,
aisles and tower.
All Saints church, Bedworth is a vivid example of the kind of total
transformation a Victorian restoration could effect.
It is immediately apparent that all that survives of the medieval building is
the fifteenth century grey sandstone west tower, whilst the body of the church
is entirely of the 1880s and of a contrasting red sandstone, built to the design
of noted late Victorian architect George Frederick Bodley.
retaining several fine fittings designed by the architect, although the chancel
screen was removed in the mid 1990s and is now placed high up at the west end,
as part of the recent reordering of the spaces within the western end of nave,
aisles and tower.
All Saints church, Bedworth is a vivid example of the kind of total
transformation a Victorian restoration could effect.
It is immediately apparent that all that survives of the medieval building is
the fifteenth century grey sandstone west tower, whilst the body of the church
is entirely of the 1880s and of a contrasting red sandstone, built to the design
of noted late Victorian architect George Frederick Bodley.