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All Saints

All Saints

Yorton

Shropshire

Circa 1190, restored in 1849.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roofs.

Nave (incorporating C12 north and south walls) with north porch, chancel with north vestry, and west tower with spire.

Paired louvred belfry openings, each of 2 cusped lights with 2 orders of shafts and hoodmoulds with carved stops.

3-light first stage west window with mullions continuing straight up through tracery to arch, and hoodmould with carved stops.

South porch has Tudor-arched entrance with carved spandrels, blind 2-light window to left, rectangular window to right, carved cornice, parapet with traceried panels, and wrought-iron gates to interior with traceried-panelled vault inscribed "RING IN THE TRUE" and "RING OUT THE FALSE".

Nave: chamfered plinth to north, C14 and C19 buttresses, coved cornice, and parapeted gable end to east with cross at apex.

South side: 3 restored C14 windows each with 2 trefoiled lights, chamfered reveals and hoodmoulds with carved stops.

Blocked C17 round-arched doorway off-centre to left with chamfered reveals and hoodmould with carved head at apex.

North side central pair of restored probably C14 straight-headed windows each with 2 cinquefoil- headed lights

C12 round-arched doorway off-centre to right with dogtooth decoration, chamfered imposts, and one order of shafts with moulded bases and stiff-leaf capitals

moulded arch with carved decoration, one order of shafts with moulded and carved capitals, hoodmould with carved stops, and pair of slatted doors with strap hinges and chamfered reveals.

South side: central buttress, lancet to left with cinquefoil - head and hoodmould and large window to right with 3 cinquefoil-headed lights and hoodmould with carved stops.

Large window with 3 trefoiled ogee-headed lights, flowing cusped tracery, moulded reveals and hoodmould with carved stops.

arch-braced collar trusses resting on hammer beams with pierced spandrels, carved wooden angels, moulded brackets and stone corbels

Tower arch with 2 continuous outer mouldings and half-octagonal inner shafts with moulded bases and carved capitals, and supporting moulded arch.

Baptistery beneath tower has stone lierne vault springing from carved angels at corners labelled "Pietas", "Charitas", "Spes" and "Fides" with carved bosses and central circular panel

south doorway with carved wooden surround and Lombardic frieze above with carved drops

recessed window seat to west and string course to north with carved stops.

Chancel arch with continuous outer moulding,and triple round inner shafts with moulded bases and carved capitals and supporting moulded arch.

East window with moulded rear arch, nook shafts with moulded bases and carved capitals, and hoodmould with carved stops.

Rich furnishings including, in chancel: wooden reredos with alabaster copy of Leonardo de Vinci's Last Supper, panelled altar with marble top, sanctuary panelling, recessed sedile with traceried back panel and canopy, and brass and wooden altar rails.

Elaborate wooden screens to organ chamber and vestry, 2 sets of elaborately panelled and carved choir stalls with poppy heads (some resembling upturned Ionic volutes), integral wooden and stone pulpit, and free-standing carved wooden lectern.

Nave contains pews with traceried end panels (and incorporating elaborate wrought-iron donation boxes in rear of those near north door), wainscot panelling,and brass oil lamps suspended from ceiling (now electric).

Baptistery has octagonal stone font (said to be a copy of that in the parish church of Dewsbury, Yorks.) with wrought-iron canopy suspended from ceiling boss, and wooden benches on 3 sides with turned baluster legs and backs.

Memorial beneath tower inscribed: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF SARAH BIBBY BORN 28 DEC 1817 DIED 19 MAY/1892 THIS TOWER AND SPIRE ARE DEDICATED BY HER HUSBAND JAMES JENKINSON BIBBY".

C9

D.H.S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, Shrewsbury Churches, pp.854-5