Church Of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. A Medieval Church.

Church Of All Saints

WRENN ID
frozen-clay-acorn
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1967
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating to the late 12th century, with significant additions in the mid 15th century, and a 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of flint rubble with dressings of clunch and red brick for the west tower. The roofs are covered in red plain tiles.

The nave, originally from the late 12th century, features a mid 15th-century north arcade of four bays, with two-centred arches of two moulded orders. The piers have four attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases, and responding attached half-columns. Some chevron ornament remains from the 12th century. A mid 15th-century upper doorway provides access to the rood loft. The south wall contains a 14th-century window with two tre-foiled ogee lights and a quatrefoil in a two-centred head, a 15th-century window of three cinquefoiled lights in a square head with a moulded label, and two 19th-century windows, one retaining a 12th-century semi-circular arch. A 13th-century south doorway has a two-centred arch of two chamfered orders. The north aisle, also dating to the 15th century, has a 15th-century doorway to the rood loft stair with a two-centred head, and two 15th-century windows in the north wall, one partly restored with a square head, the other with two cinquefoiled lights. A 15th-century north doorway has moulded jambs and a two-centred arch. The 15th-century chancel has a 19th-century east window with 15th-century splays, and two similar windows in the south wall. A late 15th-century south doorway has a 19th-century head, and a 19th-century chancel arch. A mid 15th-century south porch is timber-framed with a roll-moulded cambered beam roof, and retains its original 15th-century door. A 19th-century north vestry adjoins the north side.

The nave roof is a 15th-century structure of eight bays, arched to collars, with roll-moulded principals and four couples of seven cants per bay. A simple 15th-century crownpost roof sits over the north aisle, on sloped tie beams. The chancel has a 15th-century cross quadrate crownpost roof. The mid 15th-century west tower, built of red brick, is one of the earliest in the county and features diapering in flared headers. It has three stages, an embattled parapet, and a south-east stair turret. The two-centred tower arch has three chamfered orders. The west window has three cinquefoiled lights in a four-centred head. The second stage has single lights with four-centred heads, and the bell chamber has four windows with two four-centred lights in square heads with moulded labels.

Inside the church, there are 13th-century coffin lids in the south porch, and a 15th-century door to the rood staircase. A 15th-century octagonal font has quatrefoiled panels enclosing blank shields, and an earlier circular stem. The 15th-century piscina has chamfered jambs and a segmental pointed head. An early 16th-century carved bench end is also present.

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