All Saints
West Rasen CP
Lincolnshire
The unbuttressed 2 stage C13 tower hasa simply chamfered plinth, a tall 1st stage with a plain string course, a moulded top string course with weathered gargoyles, a battlemented parapet with curious octagonal battlemented turrets to thecorners probably added in 1828.
Architectural Features
The south tower door is C14 with pointed arch and hood mould, with above a narrow slot.
To all faces are inserted C14 2 light belfry openings, with ogee tracery and human mask label stops.
The north side has 2 stepped buttresses and a blocked 3 bay C12 arcade and aisle roof corbels are visible.
Within the blocking of the central bay is a C15 4 centred headed window with reticulated tracery.
The 4th blocked bay is C13, a taller pointed arch which clearly led to a transept.
In this blocking is set a late C13 2 light trefoil headed window.
The clerestorey has 4 flat headed late C14 windows with 2 lights and unusual reticulated tracery.
At its west end is a blocked C14 pointed arch to a former chantry chapel.
The north window is a late C13 steeply pointed single light with trefoil decoration.
The east window is C15, 5 light, repaired in C19, with a shallow 4 centred head, hood mould and label stops.
The south aisle west window is C13 lancet.
a C14 head has been set in over the doorway.
Interior: The C13 3 bay south arcade has octagonal piers and east respond, the west respond is keeled, the arches are double chamfered.
The C12 north arcade has clearly been inserted into the north wall giving this a possible Cll date.
The C13 arch into the south transept, now incorporated into the aisle has a double chamfered arch and octagonal responds.
The nave roof is late C19, a fine C14 reconstruction with brattished tie beams, arch braced queen posts, moulded principals and wall plates.
On the south chancel wall is a decorated bracket with figures of a Bishop, Priest and Layman.
There is a C14 piscina which has had the base replaced by a large stone.
The stained glass in the east window is early C19.
The benches are early C15 with traceried panels of decoration to the ends and roll moulded back rails.
The font is a plain octagonal C15 type.
Plain octagonal font from the Perpendicular period. The cover has a hook but there is no lifting mechanism. It appears to be lead-lined.
The former north aisle chapel was a chantry founded in 1373 for John Pouger
dissolved in 1548.