Church Of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1966. A Medieval Church.
Church Of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- burning-threshold-sedge
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church exhibiting elements from the 11th century, the early 13th century, the late 14th century, and a significant 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with plain tiled roofs featuring decorative red ridge tiles. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a south porch, and an apsidal chancel.
The early 13th-century west tower was heavily restored in the 19th century. Its west side incorporates a re-set round 11th-century window with looped decoration, above which are two slit lights. Strings run above the window, and bell openings with paired pointed lights and chamfered surrounds are present on all four sides, topped by moulded eaves and a pyramidal roof. The steeper pitch of the earlier nave roof is visible on the east side.
The north side of the nave dates to the late 14th century and includes a window with a triangular head, two round-headed cusped lights, and vertical tracery. A blocked pointed doorway with a fragmentary hood mould is located to the east, alongside a window with a segmental head, two cusped round-headed lights, and vertical tracery. The apsidal chancel has a string course and three plain round-headed windows.
The south side of the nave features two windows with segmental heads, two cusped round-headed lights, and vertical tracery. The remains of a large, blocked 11th-century keyhole window are located between them. The south porch has small rectangular lights on its east and west sides. Inside the porch, a round-headed archway with a chamfered inner order, moulded polygonal capitals, and abaci is framed by stone benches. A pointed 14th-century doorway with moulded jambs and a head, with a filleted inner order, hood mould, and plank door, leads into the nave.
The interior features an 11th-century tower arch, broadened at a later date, with a round chamfered head, chamfered imposts, and rectangular quoined jambs. A tall 11th-century chancel arch with a round head, chamfered imposts, and rectangular quoined jambs is also present. An early 13th-century tombstone has been re-set on the north side of the apse and is inscribed: "Hic Jacet Adanz de London Quandam Rectoristius ecclesiac cujus aizinzae propiehir Deus." Two 18th-century ashlar monuments are located in the apse, dedicated to Richard Lely, who died in 1734, and Anna Lely, who died in 1733. A marble gravestone in the apse floor commemorates Robert Dalyson, who died around 1620. A square opening in the south wall of the nave contains a piscina, and a partially blocked rectangular opening is situated to the west. The 13th-century font, extensively restored in the 19th century, has an octagonal plinth surrounded by eight shafts with stiff leaf capitals, which form a broad band around the base of a plain rectangular bowl. A black and white marble monument is dedicated to Thomas Kitchen, who died in 1809. Various 19th-century monuments, a 19th-century pulpit, an ornately carved chair, and 20th-century pews are also present.
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