All Saints church at Brockhampton near Ross on Wye, was built in 1901-2 by W.R. Lethaby. The architectural historian, Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "one of the most convincing and impressive churches of its date in any country." The clerk of works was A. Randall Wells, the architect of nearby
St Edward the Confessor at Kempley, Gloucestershire. All Saints was built in the Arts and Crafts tradition, and, like Kempley, its style is a modernized Gothic. Unusually for a small parish church it has two towers, with the bells in the wooden tower over the porch rather than over the crossing. The building is thatched and has an interior as unusual and impressive as its exterior. Unfortunately, at the time of my recent visit, it remained closed due to the coronavirus.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10
