Church Of All Saints

TG 20 NE POSTWICK LEEDER HILL

6/52 Church of All Saints. 20.5.52. II*

Parish Church, medieval and later of flint with stone dressings and plain tile roof. West tower, south porch, nave, chancel and north vestry. 2 stage tower with base course, stepped diagonal buttresses and southern polygonal stair turret. Flushwork on base course and battlemented parapet. 3 light west window with Decorated tracery. Sound holes have stone screen perforated by quatrefoils, and cusped head with rectangular hood mould. 2 light belfry openings with reticulated tracery. Gargoyles at angles of string course below parapet. Rendered south porch with diagonal buttresses. Blocked north and south windows with rectangular heads. Parapet gable with eaves and peak finials. 3 bay nave. To north, north door, 3 light Perpendicular window with Tudor arch and 3 light Reticulated window. Perpendicular south door, 3 light Decorated window with petal tracery and 3 light Perpendicular window with Tudor arch. Evidence of coursed flintwork for the first ¾s of nave wall coincidental with absence of quoins. 3 bay chancel with C19 lean-to north vestry. Single light window with cusped head on north wall with rectangular hood mould. Central priest's door to south, flanked by 2 light windows with 'Y' tracery. C19 3 light Perpendicular style window. Parapet gables with cross apex finials. Interior mainly C19. C13 dropped sill sedilia and double arched piscina with Purbeck marble columns with stiff leaf capitals located in south chancel wall. Squint with semi-circular arch above tower arch. C15 boarded door to tower stairs, with brick rib vault inside. Medieval timber bell frame.

Listing NGR: TG2961307826