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All Saints

All Saints

Worthen

Shropshire

C13 with chancel of 1761, whole restored 1846-47 and 1924.

Architectural Features

Tower: C12 to string course with large slabs of shillet forming alternating angle quoins, massive buttresses (probably C17) to east and west sides

Perpendicular top stage has cusped two-light openings with quatrefoils above, C18 parapet with plain corner obelisks and shallow pyramidal roof with lead spirelet and brass weathercock

C12 round-headed doorway below has crudely chamfered voussoirs

C17 plank door.

Long nave with roughly hewn sandstone quoins to north east and north west angles has C19 windows with geometrical tracery to left and right of tower with C17 buttress to far left

South side has four large C17 buttresses and two C19 windows with cusped geometrical tracery to left and right

window with reticulated tracery immediately to left of third buttress from west also apparently C19: late C17 gabled timber porch has roughly turned balusters to sides and collar and tie beam roof, C19 fretted bargeboards and finial

C13 pointed south doorway has continuous moulding and hoodmould.

INTERIOR: magnificent C14 nave roof of upper cruck construction in seven bays has arch-braced collars with cusped V-struts and four tiers of purlins (upper three moulded), restored when C18 plaster ceil removed in 1924.

open wooden benches also with pendant knobs (generally squatter than those to pews) in centre to front of nave probably C16 but it has been suggested they are medieval

were remodelled in C17

C13 pointed north doorway (leading to tower) has panelled door made up from dismantled pews c.1931

plain octagonal font heavily scraped and with C19 circular base is probably C14 or C15.

Pointed chancel arch probably C14, reconstructed 1761 when present chancel built.

Late C19 and C20 stained glass in various windows throughout church and two C19 boards recording benefactions to church in vestry.

Monument: south chancel wall

memorial to Dr. Daniel Price, rector, Dean of Hereford and Chaplain to Charles I, died 1631 but dated 1633: strapwork achievement flanked by debased Ionic columns and surmounted by coat-of-arms.