Church Of All Saints

TG 31 SW SALHOUSE BELL LANE east side

7/70 Church of All Saints. 10.5.61 I

Parish church. C14, with later rebuilding which was not completed. Flint with limestone dressings. Thatched roof continuous over nave and chancel. North aisle roof felted, south porch tiled. West tower, nave, chancel, south porch, north aisle. Squat, square west tower (probably never completed) with staged diagonal buttresses with flushwork panels. Embattled parapet partly rebuilt in brickwork. Square traceried sound holes. Three-light Perpendicular west window. South wall has three 2-light windows with'Y' tracery and one 3-light Perpendicular window; two staged buttresses. Small priest's door into chancel with brick jambs, four centred arched head stops to hood mould. Diagonal corner buttresses, parapeted east gable. External wall monument to Ward family on north chancel wall. Two-light 'Y' traceried aisle windows; north doorway with double chamfered arched head. Interior : nave and west tower no longer co-axial, leaving only part of tower arch exposed. C14 north arcade of five bays with double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers : one capital carved with heads, the others with foliage. Nave and chancel roots of crown post construction with arch braces to collars and to collar-purlin. Scissor-braced rafters. North aisle roof with arch-braced principal rafters on wall posts and ball-flower corbels. Solid spandrels to braces. Moulded purlin with carved bosses at intersections with principal rafters. Plain octagonal font with traceried panels in stem. Pulpit with C16 traceried panels and hour-glass stand. Some poppy-head bench ends, and one misericord, with carved head, survives in chancel. Two grave slabs, probably C12, set in west wall of tower.

Listing NGR: TG3034014976