Church Of All Saints

SD 95 SW BROUGHTON CHURCH LANE

2/25 Church of All Saints

I 10.9.54

Church, perhaps early C16. Rubble with stone slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel roofed continuously, north aisle and south porch. Perpendicular style. Irregular fenestration with square-headed windows with round-headed lights. East window of 3 cusped traceried lights. Tower has diagonal buttresses, gargoyles, battlements and pinnacles. Arched belfry windows and 2-light square-headed window to first stage. South porch has heavy collars to roof and protects a C12 doorway of one order of waterleaf capitals (shafts lost). There is a round-headed blocked priest's door in the south side of the chancel. Interior: 6-bay arcade on octagonal columns. Plain chamfered tower arch. Nave has C19 king-post roof, the trusses carried on short hammer posts from corbels. Chancel has perhaps C16 roof of king posts and collars with cambered trusses and brattished wall plate. Furnishings include parclose screen with traceried heads, to north aisle, and 2 alabaster figures of The Virgin, early C16, found in churchyard and now fixed on window sills. Several memorials to Tempest family.

Listing NGR: SD9340750359