Parish Church Of All Saints

TL 15SW GREAT BARFORD HIGH STREET

8/41 Parish Church of All Saints 13.7.64 GV II*

Parish church. Mainly C19, retaining some C15 work. W tower, nave, N and S aisles, chancel, N vestry. C15 W tower. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. 5 stages, divided by string courses. Diagonal buttresses ending in crocketed pinnacles. Embattled parapet, small lead covered octagonal spire. Pointed arched W door in rectangular surround. This and window above have moulded dripstones with carved flowers to stops. C19 belfry windows. Rest of church built C19 in C14 style, replacing original nave and chancel. Brown cobbles, ashlar dressings. Nave has 4-bay arcades and clerestory with small quatrefoils. N aisle 1848, S aisle 1860 (Pevsner p94). Square-headed windows to aisles and vestry, pointed arched S doorway, projecting slightly externally. Pointed arched windows and S door to chancel. Dripstones to all openings. All parapets embattled except recently repaired N aisle and nave N wall. Interior: (13 font, square with chamfered angles on angle shafts. Chancel has black marble and alabaster figured monument to Thomas Ansell, 1591, 2 of figures with crudely repaired heads. 1535 brass to John Fitz Jeffrey and wife, also in chancel.

Listing NGR: TL1339851706