Church Of All Hallows

SE 5864 SUTTON-ON-THE-FOREST MAIN STREET (north side, off)

6/20 Church of All Hallows

17.5.1960

GV II

Church. Late C15 tower, the rest rebuilt 1876 incorporating early C15 south wall of nave. Coursed squared stone; slate roof. 3-storey west tower; 3-bay nave with north aisle and south porch; lower 3-bay chancel with north chapel and vestry, In Perpendicular style with roll-moulded plinth; offset buttresses, angled at south-west corner of tower and south-east corner of chancel; cyma- moulded string below parapets; raised recess with cross finials. Tower: south- east vice has small, chamfered windows; a narrow chamfered light to 2nd storey and a 2-light belfry opening on each side; clock face to south side, 3-light window with hoodmould to west side, blocked pointed-arched opening to north side; corner gargoyles to embattled parapet which has crocketed finials added 1877. Nave: porch has moulded 4-centred-arched doorway, embattled parapet and moulded, pointed-arched, C19, inner doorway; 2-light window to left with hollow-moulded, flat-headed surround; 3-light pointed-arched window with hood- mould to right; embattled parapet; north aisle has three 2-light windows. Chancel: central Tudor-arched priest's door with 2-light window above and 4-light windows either side; plain parapet; good reused east window with Geo- metric tracery below C19 headstopped hoodmould; north chapel has 3-light east window with mouchettes. Interior: nave: the C15 stone south wall heightened in brick and with piscina at east and stoup by door. Tower has narrow, chamfered, vice door and stepped, chamfered arches in north and east walls. Several good memorials to members of the Harland family of Sutton Park (qv): in tower to John, d.1730, his wife and children, with winged skulls and coat of arms; in nave to Philip, d.1766, and his wife Elizabeth, decorative with medallions, festoons flanking oval plaque, urn and lamps; in chancel to Richard, d.1750, with corniced, finialled aedicule and portrait medallion, and erected 1766 to Philip, d.l689, with instruments of war. Late C17 altar table; early C18 hexa- gonal oak pulpit with panelled column and sounding board; 1673-dated alms box by nave door. Laurence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy, held the living here 1741-60. Church of All Hallows Guide Book.

Listing NGR: SE5829664723