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All Saints

All Saints

Legbourne

Lincolnshire

LEGBOURNE CHURCH LANE TF 38 SE (north-west side) 5/16 Church of All Saints 9.3.67 G.V. I Parish church. c.1380, 1865-8 by Rogers and Marsden.

Architectural Features

Chalk C14 west tower with C19 greenstone corners and 3 stage angle buttresses.

C15 clerestory above with 4 windows each of 3 lights with cusped heads, reticulated tracery and hood mould.

Porch interior with C14 doorway with pointed head with richly moulded rectangular hood mould with flanking single cusped roundels in between containing blank shields.

Interior tower arch of c.1380 with tall, triple chamfered pointed head and polygonal responds with moulded capitals.

North and south arcades of c.1380 of 4 bays with pointed, double chamfered heads, octagonal piers and polygonal responds.

Chancel arch of c.1380 with pointed, double chamfered head and polygonal responds.

Fine C15 rood screen partially restored in C19 with central ogee headed opening flanked by 2 panels, lower sections blind, rich tracery with rosettes and narrow traceried buttresses.

Small cusped C14 piscina in south wall of south aisle of nave.

C19 roofs, pews, pulpit, altar rail and lectern.

Black and white marble monument to Frederick and Edmund Allenby, the former drowned off Mablethorpe in 1815, the latter died from exposure and fatigue after climbing Mount Etna in Sicily.

C19 octagonal font with tall base with traceried panels and bowl decorated with blind shields.

Glass fragments of c.1380 in quatrefoil of north-east aisle window and south west window of chancel.

Stone slab in front of south-east altar off nave with illegible medieval inscription running round edge.