Church Of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1954. A Medieval Church.
Church Of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- tired-vestry-nightshade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th and 14th centuries. The west tower was rebuilt in 1822. The church is constructed of regular coursed ironstone and ashlar limestone, with a lead roof. It comprises a nave, chancel, north aisle and vestry, a north porch, and a west tower.
The south elevation of the chancel features three 14th-century windows with two lights and ogee heads, and a small blocked opening. The east window has reticulated tracery with five lights. The north side of the chancel has a similar two-window range, with a projecting one-window range vestry to the left. The chancel has been partially reconstructed using ironstone ashlar. The south elevation of the nave has a four-window range featuring 3-light windows with intersecting tracery, these windows were reset following the demolition of the south aisle. Traces of the original south arcade are visible above the window heads. A blocked doorway with a double-chamfered pointed head is located in the second bay from the left, accentuated by buttresses between the windows. Nave clerestory windows have 4-centred heads. The north aisle has a three-window range of 3-light windows with 4-centred heads, with similar east and west windows. A shallow gabled porch has double stepped roll moulding to the outer doorway, castellated parapets, and finials. The west tower, built of limestone ashlar in a simple 14th-century style, has four stages with buttresses. The west door has a painted arch, with a two-light window on the third stage and two-light bell-chamber openings on each face of the fourth stage. A castellated parapet with short crocketted pinnacles is present at the corners. An octagonal wooden clock face is visible on the north face.
Inside, a four-bay nave arcade features Perpendicular moulded arches supported by clusters of shafts with round capitals on the south side and polygonal capitals on the north side. The south arcade, possibly earlier, is now blocked. Double-chamfered arches define the chancel and tower openings; the tower arch has 12th-century responds. The roof structures are of 19th-century design. A restored 19th-century Perpendicular screen divides the chancel, featuring 2-light divisions with crocketted ogee gables. A 14th-century wall painting depicting the Doom is found above the chancel arch, with a related fragment above the north aisle's east window. A piscina and triple sedilia are located in the chancel, and fragments of medieval glass are present in two south-east chancel windows. Notable monuments include brasses commemorating William Harrowden (died 1423) and his wife, a marble tablet to Mary Milbanke (died 1786), and 19th-century memorials to the Layng family. A hatchment hangs above the north door. A 19th-century font can be seen, along with a stone coffin at the rear of the north aisle.
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