Church Of All Saints

TL 98 NE HARLING WEST HARLING 1/27 Church of All Saints 16/7/58 - I

Parish church. Late C13, C14, repaired 1733, restored 1902. Flint. with ashlar dressings and plain tiled roofs. West tower, nave, chancel. C14 2 stage tower with diagonal buttresses west, flat east, both with chequered flushwork. Diamond pattern flushwork base course below 2-light west window of 1902 in early Perpendicular style with hood and head stops. Trefoiled ringing chamber lights to north and south under square hoods. To south is trefoiled statue niche under crocketted ogee arch with finial. String course below plain paired lancet belfry windows of 1756 and brick crenellated parapet of same date. Gabled south porch with diagonal buttresses. Wave moulded entrance arch with hood on C19 head stops below brick relieving arch. Square statue niche above and 2-light side windows under square hoods. One mid C14 early Perpendicular 2-light nave window to south and 2 similar to north nave, all with hoods on grotesque stops. To east re-set (in 1733) 2-light plate tracery window : double lancet with hollow cut mouldings with super arch over spandrels punched with rounded quatrefoil. Parapet to nave and narrower chancel with 2-light intersecting window of 1902 and plain arched priest's door. 3-light cusped intersecting east window with hood on head stops of c.1300. Blocked roll moulded roundel above. One C13 lancet to north chancel and square C19 vestry with rising gabled dormer with Y window (lighting organ loft) of same date. 3 flat buttresses to north nave wall and moulded and arched north door. Interior. Double hammerbeam nave roof of 1902 with solid arched braces to wall posts carved with flower and diaper motifs and pierced tracery spandrels. Collars and 2 tiers moulded butt purlins. Chancel roof barrel vaulted also 1902 of timber. Roll moulded jambs and filleted depressed rere arch to south plate tracery window, the east jamb truncated to facilitate C13 angle piscina. Piscina with trefoiled ogeed arch on round columns with capitals, later than window which has been re-located. Fragments of medieval glass in quatrefoil of this window and in head of window opposite. Hollow chamfered chancel arch late C13. Empty sedilia niche in chancel with fragment of late C13 painted diaper exposed on rear wall. Double piscina within square surround. C15 octagonal font with ogee tracery to stem, head corbels under bowl and roll moulded stem panels with curved shields and floral patterns. 3 brasses in nave floor, from east : William Berdewell and wife, 1508; William Berdewell c.1490 and wife; Ralph Fuloflore, priest, 1479. All of high quality with inscriptions at foot, the priest in mass vestments.

Listing NGR: TL9740285166