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All Saints

All Saints

Alrewas

Staffordshire

C13, replacing an earlier church, additions of the C14

Architectural Features

the C16 and of 1891.

West tower: C14, three stages with angle buttresses dying into the second stage, hollow chamfered parapet string and crenellated parapet with crocketed corner finials

West door of circa 1200, two roll-moulded orders springing from nook shafts with palmette capitals,

2-leaf nail studded door with inscribed geometrical pattern made up of diamond shapes incorporating the initials T.R.I. and W.M.B. and the date 1622, and flamboyant strap hinges

South aisle: mid-C14, heightened in the C16, coinciding with a heightening of the nave arcades, bay divisions marked by buttresses

pointed lower windows each with two trefoil-headed lights and 8-lobed figure in the head and quarter-round moulded surround, C19 restoration of C14 windows

paired Tudor-arch upper windows with Y-tracery, C14 west window similar to the south windows, tall pointed east window of three lights with curvilinear tracery of circa 1340 and quarter-round moulded surround, tracery restored in C19.

North aisle: late C14, heightened in the C16

C12 north door re-set, with single roll-moulded order springing from nook shafts with cushion capitals, pointed lower windows to centre

west of north side of two trefoil-headed lights with super mullions and quatrefoil in the head, C15 square headed window to the east with two trefoil-headed lights

C16 triangular arch upper windows of three lights with cusped heads, large pointed east window of four trefoil-headed lights with perpendicular tracery over, pointed west window of four lights with cinquefoiled heads and perpendicular tracery, restored.

Chancel: C13

heightened in the C16 and restored in 1877

INTERIOR: C13 south arcade, heightened in the C16, double-chamfered pointed arches on octagonal columns with moulded capitals and squat moulded bases

north arcade of 1891, pointed and double-chamfered tower arch, pointed chancel arch with two continuous orders, the inner has a sunken chamfer, the outer an ogee moulding, ogee-moulded dripstone springing from corbels of which only the right-hand one remains, this is carved with a face peering out of foliage

C16 roofs to nave and south aisle with ridge piece, one pair of purlins and cambered tie beams, all moulded, and carved bosses

C13 sedilia and piscina in south wall of chancel, pointed and chamfered arches, the seats of the sedilia are stepped up towards the east.

Fittings: C15 octagonal font, panelled and traceried pedestal and basin, grotesques to each corner of the base

two oak chests reinforced with iron straps, probably C14

semi-octagonal pulpit dated 1639 with carved panels

two C16 oak benches with carved panels and poppy heads

former communion rail now at west end of north aisle, C17, turned balusters

remains of C15 wall painting on north side of chancel.

Monuments: wall memorial to William and Elinor Turton died 1681 and 1683, aedicule on console brackets with Corinthian columns, semi-circular pediment broken by a coat of arms