Church Of All Saints

SCRAPTOFT SK 60 NW CHURCH HILL (East Side)

1/85 Church of All Saints

29.12.66

GV I

Church. C13-C15, restored 1867. Coursed squared stone and rubble stone, mostly granite rubble stone in S aisle, with stone dressings and leaded roofs. Stone coped gables and parapet to chancel. W tower, nave, aisles, chancel and S porch. Tower of 2 stages with S angle buttresses, W buttress and N diagonal buttress, all with set-offs. Small S door with blocked 1-light over. 4 simple Perp 2-light bell openings, battlements and crocketted pinnacles. Blocked nave arch of which hood mould remains. Small C19 W door from nave to tower. 4 bay arcades with 2 wide arches and a narrower arch at either end. Double chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Perp clerestory with 3 2-light N windows and 4 similar S windows. C15 4 bay low-pitch tie-beam truss roof with carved bosses and blind arcading in gables. N aisle has restored windows, the N W with Curvilinear tracery and mid C19 stained glass, the 2 N with Intersected tracery and stained glass of 1899 by A. Ballantine and Gardiner, Edinburgh, and the N E with Reticulated tracery. N many-moulded doorway. Restored C15 4 bay low-pitch tie-beam truss roof with carved bosses. Double chamfered chancel arch, the inner supported on carved head corbels. Chancel has 2 blocked windows to both N and S. E window with Curvilinear tracery and stained glass of 1893. C15 3 bay low-pitch tie-beam truss roof with blind arcading in gables. S aisle has 3 Perp windows, 2 with mid 1920's stained glass (peacock monogram) and another of 1979 by John Hayward. S W window with Curvilinear tracery and mid C19 stained glass. Small niche and c1300 S doorway. C15 4 bay low-pitch tie-beam truss roof with carved bosses and heads and blind arcading in gables. C19 gable S porch, the upper part of wooden open work. C13 round font. Series of C18 finely carved slate tomb slabs in chancel. Series of C18/early C19 wall monuments including those to Sir Edward Wigley, died 1710, and wife (2 fine busts), James Wigley, died 1765, and Andrew Noel, died 1736. C14 recumbent effigy of a priest, said to be a Prior of Coventry, now set sideways in N chancel wall : much defaced. Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SK6476105577