Church Of All Saints

HOBY WITH ROTHERBY RAGDALE

SK 61 NE Church of All Saints 1/295 1.1.68

GV II*

Church. C13-C15. Top stage of tower rebuilt C18 and chancel rebuilt 1787. Chancel, nave, S aisle, S porch and W tower. Ironstone ashlar, limestone and grey sandstone dressings, lead and sheet metal roofs. l-bay chancel has 4-light E window with cusped intersecting tracery and hood mould. Off-set angle buttresses and battlemented parapet with stone to E gable with raised lettering Which reads: GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO / ROBERTUS COMES FERRIUS / HOC SACRARIUM REEDIFICAVIT / ANNO DOMINI 1787. Nave has 3-window clerestory of 2-light windows with cinquefoil-headed lights, 2-light window to NE, prdmbly of 1787, with cusped Y tracery and blocked chamfered N door with imposts. S aisle overlaps tower and has 3-light window to SE with intersecting tracery and hood mould. 2-light window to SW with Y tracery, hood mould and label stops and faucet W window. C18 6-panel S door, chamfered and hollow- chamfered doorway with imposts and hood mould in shallow C18 porch with battlement parapet with off-set angle buttresses and shafted doorway with moulded head. 2-stage tower has 2-light window to bottom stage W with quatrefoil to head and hood mould. Bell-chamber stage of red brick with limestone quoins and 2-light bell-chamber openings with blank quatrefoils to head and pointed trefoil-headed light. Chamfered stone eaves and pyramidal lead roof. Interior: Double-chamfered chancel arch, chamfer continuous outermost and polygonal responds innermost with moulded capitals. 3-bay S arcade with octagonal piers, polygonal responds, moulded capitals those to E pier and E respond with foliage and heads. Screen in tower arch probably late C18 panelled and with Gothick tracery above. Font: Square with panelled sides. Stem has corner shafts with some nailhead ornament. Sculpture: Carved stone inside base of tower - a bare- headed bust with vestments and crozier under semi-circular hood mould. Probably Norman but possibly Anglo-Saxon. Stain-glass: Early C19 painted glass shields with arms of Shirley and related families. Buildings of England Leics 1984 p. 357.

Listing NGR: SK6614919930