Church Of All Saints

SP 83 NW LOUGHTON CHURCH LANE

3/53 Church of All Saints

17.11.66

GV II*

Parish Church. C13-15, restored 1857 and 1886. Stone, nave and S. chapel lead roofs, chancel old tiles. Embattled W. tower, with C14 2-light belfry windows, deep corner buttresses and additional W. buttress almost blocking the W. window. S. porch, aisle and lady chapel C15 with offset buttresses, 4-light windows with some old glass in the heads. Interior: nave arcade of 2 bays continued with I bay between the chancel and S. chapel at E. end of the aisle. At the W. end of the nave are 2 transitional lancets, the tower arch is C14 supported on piers with 3 shafts with hood mould on corbels of carved heads. E. window of 2 lights, probably C13. Font also probably C13. Monuments: In the chancel is a brass to Hugh Parke, Rector, 1514, and on the S. wall a monument to Robert Crane, 1672, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and son of John Crane, Clerk of the Green Cloth to King Charles II who died in 1660, a panel in an architrave surround with scroll base, scroll pediment and cartouche of arms. Nearby is a monument to Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham, wife of John Crane, d. 1624, a panel in eared architrave, entablature and cartouche of arms. On the W. wall of the S. aisle is an early C18 monument to the Hanstrapp family, a draped cartouche with swags, arms above and angels peeping out of the drapery on either side. RCHM II.p.181. MON.1.

Listing NGR: SP8375337881