Church Of All Saints

BEESTON REGIS TG 14 SE 2/6 Church of All Saints 4:10:60 - I Parish church. Medieval. Flint with stone dressings. Lead and decorative tile roofs. Tower, nave, north and south porches, north and south aisles, chancel. Unbuttressed tower with flint quoins; 2-light C19 Decorated west window with stilted hood mould. Single light cusped opening to west and south, that to west blocked. Rectangular opening to north. Tower heightened; stone quoins; 2-light cusped Y-tracery bell openings; gargoyles; flushwork parapet. West windows to north and south aisles of 2 lights with panel tracery and square heads under hood moulds. Nave of 3 bays with buttressed aisles with diagonal buttresses. 2 2-light windows to south and 2 2-light windows to north similar to aisle west windows. Re-faced north porch with blocked doorway and restored window similar to those in the aisles in west face. Rood stair on arched brick corbel. Clerestorey with 3 windows to north and south having 3 cusped lights, the mullions rising to the head of the arch; squared stone voussoirs; knapped flint and galleted walling. East aisle windows of 3 lights similar to those to west. Chancel with diagonal buttresses. Walls heightened. To south one C19 Y-tracery window under stilted hood mould; one small window with re-used stonework; one C19 3-light window with panel tracery; priest's door with continuous hollow chamfer. To north 2-light square headed largely C19 window. Restored 3-light Decorated east window. Buttressed south porch to first nave bay, post-medieval brick dentils to eaves; archway with shafts, polygonal abaci and bases; hollow chamfered arch; hollow to inner and outer continuous order. Moulded hood mould. Knapped flint paving to porch; pointed barrel vault. Nave doorway with continuous chamfer; hood mould. C14 nave arcades, with polygonal shafts, abaci and bases; 2 chamfered orders to arch. Arch-braced roof, the arches supported on timber shafts with polyongal abaci and bases resting on stone corbels, those to the south crenellated. Arch- braced roofs to the aisles with rose basses; the arches on stone corbels, some with heads. Stoup beside south door. Piscina in south aisle. Re-used poppy- head bench-ends in aisles. Rood stair in north aisle. C15 rood screen with Apostles to the panels; vine-trail to middle rail. Crowned head corbels to eastern arcade responds; queen to south, king to north. Rendered tower arch with vase-like capitals; setback above, then an opening with wide splay; rectangular opening over. Chancel arch with polygonal shafts, bases and abaci; 2 chamfered orders to arch. Ogee-headed piscina and sedilia with 2 detached shafts under square headed hood mould. C17 communion rail. Brass in chancel floor to John and Katherine Deynes, d.1527, with 2 figures c.lm high.

Listing NGR: TG1743643074