Church Of All Saints

MATERIALS: Knapped, coursed flint with reused Roman brick and stone dressings. Slated roof.

PLAN: Aisle-less nave, chancel and south porch with unbuttressed west tower. North transept and vestry added by Pearce.

EXTERIOR: The substantial nave and chancel walls are constructed largely with C11 and C15 fabric, comprising coursed flint facings and some re-used Roman brick quoins. Most of the window openings and tracery are C19. In the north wall of the nave is a blocked doorway with a non-radial, re-used brick surround. To its right is a recessed, arched niche. The tower is mainly C15 with C19 openings and stone quoins in the lower stages. The parapet, openings and tracery are of 1883.

INTERIOR: The roof has a scissor-brace truss. The tower, chancel and transept arches are Perpendicular (C14) in style. Over the chancel arch is a C19 wall-painted script which reads ‘HOLY HOLY HOLY, LORD, GOD ALMIGHTY’ beneath which, on either side of the arch, are painted panels with scrolls and foliate motifs.

The altar has a coloured marble reredos flanked by wall paintings of kneeling angels. In the south wall of the chancel, there is a sedile and a piscina with an ogee arch and figurative label stops. The East window was formerly in St Mary’s Church; the stained glass by Gibbs and Howard commemorates Charles Eyres, the Rector who died on All Saints day 1875. The window in the south wall of the chancel, also by Gibbs and Howard, was given by Alfred Day, Rector, to commemorate Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee in 1897. The east window in the south wall of the nave depicts St Wolstan of Bawburgh. The west window in the south wall of the nave, given in 1962, depicts St Fursey, the supposed founder of the parish. Near to the door is an aumbry.

FIXTURES AND FITTINGS: Most fixtures and fittings are of 1883, apart from in the porch, where two C15 poppyhead pews and two C14 sarcophagus lids from St Mary’s are fixed. The C19 font may rest on an earlier pedestal and has a carved wooden cover. Attached to the north wall of the aisle is a decorative war memorial to the parish dead of both World Wars. In the north transept is an early-C20 organ, and in the attached vestry there is a late-C19 fireplace.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.