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All Saints

All Saints

Theddlethorpe St Helen

Lincolnshire

C12, c.1380-1400, late C17, 1865-66 minor repairs.

Architectural Features

Squared greenstone rubble, coursed limestone rubble, limestone dressings, C17 brick patching, lead roofs.

The 4 stage tower is of squared greenstone rubble with a substantial amount of brick patching, it has chamfered string courses, stepped corner buttresses, battlemented parapet with corner gargoyles and unusual lead covered central crocketted pinnacle.

The north aisle has a battlemented parapet with large gargoyles and corbels, it has a 2 light west window, 4 three light side windows, a continuously moulded doorway and an east window of 3 lights.

The clerestory with battlemented and pinnacled parapet and gargoyles has 5 two light windows.

In the north wall of the nave are incorporated many fragments of C12 chevron and beakhead voussoirs.

In the east wall of the south aisle is a medieval altar slab with consecretaion crosses above which is a stone reredos.

Fragments of post medieval texts can be seen on the north wall of the north and south aisles.

The north aisle has a further medieval altar stone, a statue bracket, and a door to the rood loft.

In the chancel is a blocked window on the north side and on the south side is a triple sedilia supported on apparently reused C12 shafts, with beyond a piscina.

In the south aisle window are some fragments of C15 glass.

The C15 chancel screen of 7 bays enriched with panelled tracery to the upper parts and in the bases of the bays.

To either side are parclose screens of 1535, the upper parts of the panels have finely wrought pierced Renaissance carvings of coats of arms, grotesques and human heads.

The pulpit and lectern are C19.

The pews have C16 poppy head ends and the rear pews have contemporary brattished back rails and blank ogee tracery.

Carvings on the parclose screen. 16th C.

At the rear of the church is a late C17 richly carved oak pulpit removed from Skidbrooke Church.

Carvings on the parclose screen. 16th C.

© Julian P Guffogg

The font is C15, octagonal with quatrefoils, fleurons and human heads, having C18 openwork wooden cover.

At the west end is preserved the C15 wooden pinnacle from the tower roof.

Monuments.

Robert Hayton died in 1424. He is depicted in rather out of date armour for the time.

In the south aisle chapel is a brass to Sir Robert Hayton who died 1424 showing the deceased in plate armour with feet resting on a lion.

Robert Hayton died in 1424. He is depicted in rather out of date armour for the time.

© Julian P Guffogg

Nearby is the matrix for a double brass of which only one brass shield remains.

A fine marble monument to Hon.

Beyond is an early C19 monument in the Greek Taste.