Church Of All Saints

SU 73 NW FARRINGDON CHURCH ROAD

2/43 Church of All Saints 31.7.63 GV II*

Parish church. C12, C13, c.1400, restored and enlarged 1858, by Woodyer. Stone and rendered walls, with a tile roof. Nave of 3 bays with a north aisle, chancel and large north vestry, west tower and south porch. Plain roof, taller to the chancel, separate to the vestry, and brought to a very low eaves over the windowless north aisle. The nave walls are cement-rendered, and there is a 3- light Perpendicular window on each side of the porch: the chancel and vestry have polygonal masonry, with stepped buttresses, varied Gothic windows (the east window having curvilinear tracery), band, plinth. The lower part of the tower is C13, with 3 lancets, the upper C14, with small quatrefoil bell-stage openings, the walls being rendered, and the roof a shingled broach spire. The south porch of 1634 is of brickwork in Flemish bond with blue headers, with small oval side lights, and a front with a 2-centred pointed arch within a projecting frame, topped by a brick band and a moulded pediment. Inside, the arcade (of later plain round arches) rests on circular piers, the western bay with scalloped caps, the eastern bays moulded, and there is a small Norman north door (blocked). The ceiling is flat between tie beams, but at the east end is arched with moulded wall-plates. The chancel is Victorian Early English. There is a classical wall monument (of 1770) in the nave, a panelled C18 pulpit, a bowl font meting on 4 C13 capitals, other fittings being Victorian. Gilbert White (of nearby Selborne) was a curate 1761-85.

Listing NGR: SU7132335379