Church Of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Church.
Church Of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- errant-chancel-swift
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints, formerly known as Little Bookham Church, dates from circa 1100. A south aisle was added in the 12th century, later removed and rebuilt in the 15th century, before being taken down again. The church was restored in the 19th century, and a porch and vestry were added during that period. It is constructed of flint, partly plastered, with limestone dressings. The west gable is weather-boarded, and the roof is covered in red tiles, with a weather-boarded bell-turret.
The church is a small building comprising a nave and chancel in a single vessel, with a south porch, a north vestry, and a small bell-turret at the west end. The south wall contains a 15th-century chamfered doorway, protected by a gabled 19th-century porch. To the right of this doorway are the remains of two bays of the former aisle arcade, visible as semicircular arches in the masonry, with small exposed portions of the capitals. The blocking under the first arch contains a 13th-century lancet window; that under the second, a 15th-century square-headed window with two recessed trefoil lights and a chamfered surround, with a blocked trefoil lancet to its right. Further to the right, the chancel has a restored 15th-century window similar to the others but taller. To the left of the porch is a small Norman-style window with round-headed lights. The west end has a small 12th-century round-headed lancet. The east end has a large 19th-century three-light window in the 13th-century style. A low, square, weather-boarded bell-turret with a short splay-footed, tiled spire and a weathervane (said to be dated 1744, with initials "IS") tops the west end of the roof.
Inside, the remains of the four-bay arcade to the former south aisle are visible, comprising the inner third of circular columns with scalloped capitals and semicircular arches chamfered on one side. A scratch or mass dial is partially visible on the east side of the 15th-century window in the second bay, and the window has keeled moulding and a hoodmould. The walls at the west end and the west end of the north wall each feature a 12th-century window, the latter now partially hidden by the vestry. The doorway to the vestry is the altered original north door of the nave. A 15th-century piscina with a quatrefoil head and sunk traceried spandrels is set into the south wall of the chancel, and a blocked two-centred chamfered arch is on the north wall. The nave features two massive chamfered tie-beams – the stubs of a third are at the west end, replaced by a tie-rod – and a wagon roof. A tub font with latticed metal strapping stands at the west end, and five hatchments of the Pollen and Maddox families are displayed on the west end wall.
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