Church Of All Saints

SK 05 SE GRINDON C.P. GRINDON

7/77 Church of All Saints

1.2.67. G.V. II

Parish Church. Rebuilt 1845 by the Francis brothers. Sandstone ashlar; slate roofs. 2-bay chancel, 4-bay nave, North and South aisles. North vestry; West tower with broach spire. Early C14 Decorated style. Chancel has pointed windows of 2 trefoil headed lights; East window has reticulated tracery. Aisles: Pointed 2-light windows; hood moulds terminate in scrolls, gabled South Porch, roll moulded hood mould to pointed archway, terminating in heads of a King and Queen; grotesques to either side of porch. West Tower has 3 stages; semi-octagonal stair turret on South side with lancet openings, pointed ground floor doorway and crenellated cap; West door has one order of colonettes and roll and fillet hood mould stopped in heads of a King. and Queen; 2-light belfry openings; gabled openings in base of spire. Corner buttresses to chancel, aisles, porch and tower, those to tower have carved animals: snake, monkey, dragon and dog. Interior: Arcade of 4 pointed arches on clustered columns; pointed chancel arch springing from engaged columns; pointed tower arch with Wave moulding; arch braced collar truss roof to nave, the braces supported on stone corbels with heads carved on them; first floor stage of West tower is rib vaulted. Fittings: C19 stone pulpit with blind cusped and crocketed panels; bowl of a Romanesque font and 2 medieval coffins in the West tower, discovered during the C19 rebuilding. B.O.E. P.138.

Listing NGR: SK0854454531