Parish Church Of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. A Medieval Church.
Parish Church Of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- buried-gallery-moon
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of All Saints is a historic church dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. It features a tower made of coursed limestone rubble, with brown cobbles and ashlar dressings, and is topped with slate roofs. The church comprises a chancel, a north vestry, a nave, a south porch, a north aisle, and a west tower.
The chancel includes a 15th-century north doorway leading to the 19th-century vestry and a 19th-century east window. The south wall has 15th-century windows and a priest's door, while the chancel arch was restored in the 19th century. The nave contains a three-bay north arcade from the 14th century, which has been restored, and three 15th-century clerestory windows on the north side. The south wall features remnants of a rood staircase and a three-light window above it. The south porch is plain, with blocked windows on each side and a 19th-century external doorway.
The north aisle, dating from the 14th century, has a wide left window with an image recess in the northeast corner. The north wall displays two pointed arched windows from the 14th century with different tracery, a blocked north doorway, and a restored window similar to those in the clerestory. There is also a three-light west window. The 15th-century west tower has five stages, with angle buttresses on the west side, a leaded spirelet, and shields on the cornice. It features two-light windows on all sides of the top stage, a three-light window on the lower west side, a small niche above, and a single light on the south side. The tower has an embattled parapet, while the other parapets are plain.
Inside, there is a cylindrical 12th-century font with an unfinished band of acanthus leaves and a fragment of 14th-century glass in the north aisle window. The chancel contains a tomb from 1518 for Edmund and Agnes Wayte, featuring brasses inlaid in a slab, along with shields and inscriptions. There are also various 17th and 18th-century wall monuments to the Beecher family, as well as 19th-century monuments to the Polhill family. The church mainly has 19th-century roofs and pews.
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