Church Of All Saints

SE4807 HOOTON PAGNELL 11/93 Church of All Saints

5.6.68

GV I

Church. C12, C13 and C14; 1876 restoration by J. L. Pearson. Rubble and ashlar limestone, red tile roofs. West tower, 2-bay nave, 2-bay chancel with north aisle, south porch. West tower: rubble lower stage with diagonal, ashlar south-west and angle north-west buttresses; C19 west window of 3 lights, reticulated tracery. Moulded offset beneath two C14, ashlar stages, south and north clock faces, 2-light belfry openings with louvres and cusped Y-tracery. String course with gargoyles; embattled, pinnacled parapet. Nave: walling continuous from tower, chamfered plinth, quoins at east end. Rebuilt south porch has broad, pointed arch with hoodmould, gable copings with cross. South doorway within has ancient oak door with some medieval ironwork, round arch with 5 incised voussoirs and simple hood; medieval grave-slab fragments in porch walls. To right, two C19 3-light windows with intersecting tracery and hoodmoulds with light stops. Cavetto-moulded eaves band. Rebuilt north wall has Old buttresses flanking square-headed windows of 3 ogee-headed lights, hoodmoulds. chancel: lower and narrower. C19 priest's door to right of quoins to original short chancel with rubble walling pierced by Y-tracery, 2-light window. Massive buttress to far right, dated 1677, has 2 lancets in ashlar walling on its left. North windows as aisle. C19 east window of 3 lancets with shared hoodmould. Gable copings and crosses to nave and chancel.

Interior: round tower arch probably rebuilt in C14. C13 north arcade of 2 bays has cylindrical pier with crocketed, octagonal capital, keeled imposts and chamfered, pointed arches. Chancel arch: c12, shafts and roll-moulded Vpussoirs on west side, carved imposts with cable mould beneath lozenges. Chamfered round arch into north chapel probably c15; C19 arch on left houses organ. Sedilia with 2, distorted,round arches with 2 medieval grave slabs in back wall. C19 east window with inner shafts and dog-tooth ornament. C19 roofs. Beneath tower are: cylindrical Norman font (brought from elsewhere), late medieval oak panels, 3 benefactions boards and 2 medieval grave slabs (against west wall). Early C18 pulpit with marquetry panels. Wall monument in north chapel to John Stanhope(d1674): cartouche with draped sarcophagus over, skull with arms.

P. F. Ryder, Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, South Yorkshire County Council County Archaeology Monograph No 2, 1982, pp63-70.

Listing NGR: SE4854407952