Church Of All Saints

ST 98 NE LEA & CLEVERTON GARSDON

6/101 Church of All Saints

28.10.59

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Anglican Parish Church. Early C15 (tower), the remainder of 1856 by Coe & Goodwin. Squared and coursed rubble with stone dressings, ashlar buttresses and copings, Welsh slate roofs. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch. Two-stage tower with diagonal buttresses with set-offs to first stage string course, north-east corner stair turret and pierced trefoil parapet with gargoyles below. West face has a 3-light C15 window under pointed head to first stage with beast stops to hoodmould: pig to left: single opening above. Two-trefoil-cusped-light bell opening with pierced louvres to all faces. Four-bay nave with 3-light C15 style windows under pointed heads and buttresses between. Two-bay chancel of similar windows; 3-light east window with face stops to hoodmould Gabled south porch with pointed-arched entrance and inner 2-leaf plank door. Interior: open rafter roofs to nave and chancel; 2-bay north arcade to vestry. Fittings: C19 Perpendicular style wooden pulpit and octagonal stone font; wall monument to Sir Laurence Washington of 1643 on chancel north wall: oval inscription panel surrounded by a wreath and barleysugar columns supporting an open segmental pediment with 2 allegorical figures. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST9672087830