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All Saints

All Saints

Chilson

Oxfordshire

C12, with C13 or C14 alterations, partly rebuilt in the late C14 or C15, chancel rebuilt in the mid-C18, and south porch and belfry added in the late C19

Architectural Features

South front: 2 late C14 or C15 square-headed windows of 2 ogee cinquefoil-headed lights with quatrefoils in spandrels, moulded reveals, and returned hoodmoulds

Central C15 boarded door with strap hinges and wave-moulded archway with returned hoodmould

West end: square-headed C15 window of 2 depressed-arched lights with returned hood mould and wrought-iron bars

C12 chamfered round-arched blocked doorway to left, with impost moulding and returned hood mould

C12 small chamfered round-arched window to right with hood mould and probably C17 two-light chamfered mullioned stone window to left with rectangular-leaded lights

Reused C14 low-side window to south with 2 ogee trefoil-headed lights under square-head, C18 flush stone surround and plain leaded glazing

Interior: C18 three-bay nave roof with king-post trusses, c.1902-3 moulded brackets with carved rosettes, reused medieval carved stone head corbels, and single purlins

C12 north window with deeply-splayed jambs

C13 or C14 double-chamfered chancel arch

Plain benches. c18 box pews with H-hinges, pew to pulpit with raised and fielded panels

C18 two-decker pulpit with moulded top rail and winder stairs

C12 plain circular stone font, lead lined

Fragments of medieval wall paintings, including the early C14 St

Frideswide on the north wall, the C15 Miracle of the Clay Birds on the south reveal of the squint, remains of the C15 Last Judgement over the chancel arch, and the C15 legend of St

Late C17 or early C18 painted texts on the west wall with scrolled surrounds, one illegible and the other with the inscription "Now my God/let (I beseech thee)/thine eyes be open/and let thine ears be/..... unto the prayer/that is made in this/place/II Chrons Chap/VI v.10", Some probably late C17 or early C18 painted gadrooning above south doorway