Church Of All Saints

SCOTTOW TG 22 SE 7/9 Church of All Saints 16:4:55 - I Parish church; C14 and C15 restored. Flint with stone and brick dressings; leaded roof. West tower, nave with north and south aisles, south porch, continuous chancel. Embattled west tower of 3 stages, diagonal buttresses; plinth with flushwork; C15 west window 3 lights with panel tracery, alternate brick and flint voussoirs; cusped lights to ringing chamber; tracery lost to bell openings; cruciform lights to external stair-turret. Buttressed nave of 6 bays; south aisle with 3-light C15 windows restored in C19 with 4- centred arch over; alternate brick and flint voissoirs; external rood stair with stone quoins. North aisle C15 3 light square headed windows; blocked doorway to first bay with stoop to left. Clerestorey C19 2-light foiled head windows with alternate white brick and flint voussoirs. Chancel with C19 Decorated windows; Priest's door with ogee arch and finial. South porch of 2 storeys to first nave bay with flushwork to gabled parapet; restored doorway with castellated abaci under alternate brick and flint voussoirs; early C18 memorial tablet over doorway with semi-circular head, blank panel, apron with cherubs head beneath scroll support; vaulted ground floor to porch with green- man boss; nave doorway with continuous moulding, hood mould with figure stops. Interior. C14 north arcade piers of clustered shafts with fillets and hollows in the diagonals; south arcade of polygonal shafts with castellated abaci. South aisle roof with arched braces; tracery and shields in some spandrels, embattled wall plate. North aisle roof arched braces; principal beams with roll-moulding. Nave and chancel roof with arch braces; embattled wall-plate, plain ashlaring. Rood beam still in place. Circa 1400 tall, slim tower arch. Piscina having tracery with mouchettes. Nave wall painting of St. Christopher. Organ case with pieces of C17 carved wood from various sources dated 1641 and 1649. Font cover probably of c1700. Mostly box pews. Some pews, altar rails and pulpit with stone base by Butterfield (1857). Royal arms of William and Mary dated 1696. C17 lectern.

Listing NGR: TG2655723740