Church Of All Saints is a Grade II* 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
long-courtyard-cobweb
Grade
II*
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 that dates back to the 13th century, with extensions and alterations from the 15th, 16th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed of flint rubble with freestone dressings, now rendered with pebble dash, while the west tower is made of brick. The roofs are covered with red plain tiles. The early 13th-century nave features an early 16th-century south doorway with moulded jambs and a four-centred arch set in a square head, complete with sunk spandrels and a moulded label decorated with blank shields as stops. The windows are simple 19th-century designs with two-centred heads. The late 13th-century chancel has mostly 19th-century details inside, except for the east window, which is partly from the 14th century. Notably, there is no chancel arch.

The early 16th-century red brick tower has stone dressings and consists of three stages, featuring a moulded plinth and an embattled parapet above a corbel table. The tower arch is two-centred, composed of two chamfered orders with semi-octagonal responds that have moulded capitals and bases. The west window is from the 19th century but retains its original splays and rear arch. The second stage includes four original windows with single pointed lights and moulded labels. Each wall of the bell chamber has a window with two segmental pointed lights set within a segmental head and a moulded label. There is a 19th-century north vestry.

The south porch, dating from the 15th century, is timber-framed with plastered dwarf walls. The side walls were originally divided into ten lights by diamond-shaped mullions, with the mortices still visible. The original roof features cambered tie-beams and two braced crown posts. The south door is from the 15th century. Inside, there is a late 17th-century chair with twisted posts and a carved and pierced back, along with a 16th-century door to the turret in the west tower and another in the west doorway. The west tower contains late 15th-century or early 16th-century carved inscriptions. The chancel has a 13th-century piscina with stop-chamfered cills made of Purbeck marble, and there is a possible 13th-century piscina in the nave with an elaborately moulded head. Some early 16th-century oak seats are present, as well as some re-used 13th-century bricks in the buttresses at the east end.

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