All Saints' Church

About

All Saints' Church, Westbury is a Gothic church built between approximately 1340 and 1380 in the transitional style between the Decorated and Perpendicular Gothic styles. Parts of this building can be seen in the present, most notably in the lower parts of the transepts and nave and the lower portion of the tower. This building was extensively rebuilt and extended from circa 1437, which included adding a clerestory to the nave, adding three chapels and raising the central tower to its present height of 84 feet (26 metres). In 1968 the church was found to be subject to subsidence due to a broken culvert under the building which was causing the Tower to lean. Concrete piles were driven into the ground to stabilise it. It has beautiful stained glass buildings which many visitors comment on The bells are the third heaviest peal in the world. Grade I Listed building.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 30 minutes