Church Of All Saints

TF 83 NW STANHOE CHURCH LANE (east)

4/45 Church of All Saints. 5.6.53. I

Parish Church. C13, C14 and C15. Flint, stone dressings, slate roofs, lead north aisle roof. 4 bay nave and aisles, south west tower, 2 bay chancel. Unbuttressed tower of 3 stages acting as south-west porch. Rectangular lancets to second stage, 4 2-light belfry windows, 3 with c.1300 "Y" tracery, one with 2-lights with trefoil in spandrel. Quoins, bell stage stringcourse, battlemented parapet. Nave west gable has 3-light "Y" tracery west window c.1300. South aisle has c.1300 tower door. 3 south and one east 2-light Decorated C14 windows with flowing tracery mouchettes. North aisle has c.1200 north door, one 'Y' tracery c.1300 window, 2 3-light Perpendicular straight headed windows. Chancel has south priest's door. 2 south c.1300 "Y" tracery windows with internal reveal arches and colonnettes with bases and capitals. 2 north c.1300 windows with same internal details, one blocked, one with C19 Decorated tracery. East window C19 Decorated tracery. Interior: 4 bay C14 north and south arcades have moulded bases and capitals, octagonal piers and double hollow chamfered arches. C14 chancel arch with semi-octagonal columns, double hollow chamfered arch. Early C19 King-post strut nave roof, mid-C19 aisle roofs. Font, stone, High Victorian. Pulpit and reading desk, oak, High Victorian 1853. Chancel has fine C14 sedilia and piscina under one drip mould, with moulded bases and capitals to rounded columns, trefoil cusping, ogee arches and carved head label stops. Early C19 roof. Commmunion Rails 1853. Stained glass : south aisle south east and east both c.1898, chancel south-west 1869, south east c.1873 close to contemporary Morris and Co style, chancel east window 1884 in C.E. Kempe style.

Listing NGR: TF8020436880