Church Of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1967. A Late C12 - C15 Church. 1 related planning application.
Church Of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- gentle-moat-indigo
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating to the late 12th century, with substantial additions and alterations in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. It was restored in 1881. The church is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and ashlar, with ashlar dressings, and has plain tile roofs with stone coped gables and finials. It features a west tower with a spire, a nave with aisles, a north porch, and a chancel with a north chantry chapel.
The unbuttressed three-stage tower has a moulded plinth on its west side and a single tall lancet window. The other tower sides are blank, save for various corbels. The third stage contains a single, two-light bell opening with circular tracery on each side. The tower is topped with battlements and a 14th-century spire featuring a single set of lucarnes. The north aisle displays a two-light, panel-tracery, pointed arched west window. The north, gabled porch has a chamfered, pointed arched opening, stone benches, and a double-chamfered, pointed arched doorway with a 19th-century door. The north aisle itself contains two, two-light, panel-tracery windows within segment arches, with a single buttress between them. The clerestory features three windows on each side, each with a two-light, panel-tracery window under a pointed arch. The north chantry chapel has a single, three-light, flowing tracery, pointed arched east window. The south wall of the chapel contains a three-light, plate tracery, pointed arched window and a small lancet. The south aisle has two buttresses, plus a single east and west window, and two south windows, all two-light with panel tracery within segment arches.
The interior features a three-bay nave with double-chamfered, pointed arcades, with elementary capitals on octagonal piers to the north and round piers to the south, and responds to the west. The tower arch is also double-chamfered, with octagonal responds, and above it is a small blind opening, above which is the line of the earlier roof. A double-chamfered, pointed arch leads from the chancel to the north chapel. The chancel also contains a triple arched sedilia with octagonal piers, chamfered round arches, and a 19th-century piscina. All roofs, pews, the pulpit, the font, and the altar rail are from the 1881 restoration.
The north chapel houses an important tomb to Sir Richard de Buslingthorpe, dating from c.1435. The tomb-chest displays three shields and quatrefoil panelling between, and is topped with reclining alabaster figures of a knight and his lady. A brass wall plate commemorates Mary Ellis (died 1637). Within the north aisle, two slate wall tablets are dedicated to James Brand (died 1719) and Robert Stevenson (died 1729). A 15th-century alms box is situated by the north doorway.
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