Church Of All Saints

SU 61 SE HORNDEAN CATHERINGTON LANE

8/2 Church of All Saints

16.3.54 II*

Parish church. All medieval periods, mainly late C12, restored 1883 by Edmund Ferrey. The flint walls are mostly Victorian, but the stone dressings have original as well as restoration details; small stepped buttresses, and a massive brick buttress at the east end. Tile roof, extending over the aisles, separate roof to the north chapel, Nave and chancel of the same width with continuous arcade, large north chapel, south transept, north and south aisles, tower at the west end of the south aisle. The round arches have many mouldings (of late Norman style), on the south side are cylindrical columns with scalloped caps, on the north side alternating cylindrical and octagonal columns with moulded caps, the smaller arches to the tower of Early English style, the transept arch being Victorian. Most windows are lancets, but there are late C15 and early C16 lights at the east end, north chapel, and tran- sept. The furnishings are Victorian. A notable tomb monument to Sir Nicholas Hyde and his lady occupies the east end of the north chapel, and there are several wall monuments of the late C18 and early C19. On the north wall at the west end of the nave is a (restored) wall-painting of c1350, showing St Michael weighing souls.