Church Of All Saints

TL 18 SE SAWTRY CHURCH CAUSEWAY 5/52 Church of All Saints 28.1.58 II Parish church. Circa 1880 incorporating late C13 material. By Sir A w Blomfield. Reused coursed limestone with parapetted plain tiled roofs. Plan of nave, with north aisle, chancel and north organ chamber and vestry. South wall of nave has three windows of two trefoil lights each in two centred arches with foiled heads. East window of chancel arch. North wall of north aisle has two reset C14 windows. In the west wall of north aisle are restored late C13 windows. Interior: North arcade of four bays. Two centred arches of two chamfered orders on round columns with moulded capitals and bases. Nave roof in four bays. Queen Struts and arch bracing. Chancel arch two centred and of two chamfered orders, the inner on corbels carved with stiff leaf foliage and mask heads. Late C13 arcade reset in wall between chancel and north chapel. Two bays of two centred arches with two chamfered orders. Sedilia and piscina in south wall of chancel. In west wall of nave are four C12 tomb slabs, reset in 1907. Brass reset in chancel, Sir Wm. LeMoyne (d.1404) and Maria, his wife, in Alwalton marble slab.

Pevsner: Buildings of England, p342 Norris Museum, St Ives: S. Inskip Ladds Records R.C.H.M. Hunts., mon (1), p342

Listing NGR: TL1718683941