Church Of All Saints

CATTON LOW CATTON SE 75 SW

1/23 Church of All Saints 26.1.67

GV I

Church. C12 origins; C13 north and south aisles, C15 south-west tower, chancel 1866 by G E Street, C19 south porch. 3-stage south-west tower, 4-bay aisled nave with north transept and south porch, 3-bay chancel with north vestry. South-west tower: plinth with diagonal buttresses with offsets, slit window to second stage, 2-light pointed belfry openings with Perpendicular tracery under hood-mould, crenellated parapet with corner finials. Nave: plinth, buttresses with offsets. 2-light square headed windows with Perpendicular tracery. Pointed chamfered south door under hollow-moulded order on nook-shafts with nail-head. Boarded wooden door. 2-light pointed west window with cusped Y-tracery. Raised coped gables. Chancel: moulded plinth, buttresses with offsets, scroll-moulded stepped string. Three 2-light pointed windows with plate tracery under hood-moulds. Pointed chamfered priest's door under hood-mould: above that a small blank pointed window with hood-mould. Pointed 3-light east window with curvilinear tracery under hood-mould with foliage stops. Raised coped gable with flory cross finial. North transept has small round-headed slit window with continuous chamfer to west, pointed window with Y-tracery to the north, and 3-light square-headed window with Perpendicular tracery to east. Low- pitch coped gable. Interior: pointed east door with continuous broad chamfer to tower chamber, pointed double-chamfered north tower arch on moulded capitals and demi-octagonal responds. C13 north arcade of pointed double-chamfered arches on cylindrical, quatrefoil and square piers (the latter with attached filleted shafts) on moulded bases. The easternmost arch is C12 (to former transept) and of 2 chamfered round orders. East respond decorated with water-leaf. South arcade of 3 pointed double- chamfered arches on octagonal capitals and piers and moulded bases. Chancel: fine east window: 1866 by William Morris. Central panel of Crucifixion with mourning saints and Virgin to right and left; scenes from the nativity of Christ in separate panels below. C13 goblet-shaped font. Memorial in south aisle to Thomas Robinson and his brother, died 1835: the former murdered by a poacher, the latter killed by his own gun. Brass memorial tablet with inscription to Thomas Tryll, died 1591, in north aisle. Lying in a disused tomb recess in the chancel is a small stone, recently excavated from the churchyard, bearing the strange carving of a man with a long pointed beard -presumably intended to be Christ.

Listing NGR: SE7047853990