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All Saints

All Saints

Benington

Lincolnshire

Early C13, C14, C15, 1873 restoration by James Fowler.

Architectural Features

2 stage late C14 tower with moulded plinth, string courses, parapet and corner buttresses each with a crocketed ogee with beast head corbels half way up.

Large 4 light C15 window with hollow moulded surround and panelled tracery.

Lead roofed C14 north aisle with 3 light C15 window in west end with cusped heads to the lights and panel tracery.

Moulded plinth and chamfered eaves, on the north side with continuously moulded doorway having to west 2 and to east 3 two light C14 windows in moulded rectangular surrounds, with cusped ogee heads to the lights, all subdivided by stepped buttresses.

Battlemented clerestory of 6 three light C15 windows with panel tracery and linked hoods.

Coursed squared limestone rubble nave with slate roof, C13, partly rebuilt C19.

C15 east window of 5 lights with deeply moulded surround and panel tracery, flanked by C19 buttresses bearing a quatrefoil.

On the south side 4 C15 3 light windows with cusped heads and panel tracery.

Continuously moulded C14 restored priest's door.

The south aisle has a 3 light reticulated C14 east window, restored C19, and on the south side 5 two light windows as the north side.

In the west end a 3 light C14 reticulated window, matching the east end.

Gabled C14 porch with lead roof with moulded outer arch with fleurons, octagonal responds and quatrefoil frieze to base.

C14 6 bay nave arcades with 2 hollow chamfered orders

octagonal piers, responds and capitals on large circular C13 bases.

C15 tower arch with double hollow chamfered arch, and octagonal responds.

C14 nave roof pitch is fossilized in the tower wall.

Early C13 chancel arch with a roll and a square moulding with 3 collared clustered shafts, with stiff leaf foliage.

C15 nave roof with moulded principals of queen post construction, with arched braces, resting on cambered ties, in turn braced to posts, supported on carved corbels.

Angel supporters with shields.

On both side walls, are the annular corbels and springing ribs for 4 bays of C13 vault, now vanished.

In the south wall a C14 triple sedilia with ogee arches and clustered shafts, a pointed headed piscina, and a double aumbry with roll moulded surround.

Fine C15 7 bay chancel screen, the central bay wider with double doors.

Carved and sculptured stone pulpit of 1864.

Superb C14 sandstone octagonal font with pairs of figures under crocketed ogee niches to each face.

Angel supporters to bowl.

Pilastered stem also with figures, carved base, on 3 octagonal steps with 2 kneeling stones.