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All Saints

All Saints

Holbeach CP

Lincolnshire

HOLBEACH CHURCH STREET TF 3424-3524 (east side) 15/59 Church of All Saints 30.6.66 G.V. I Parish church. c.1340-c.1380, c.

Architectural Features

1400, early C15, early C18, restored 1867.

2 stage west tower of c.1340 remodelled in early C15 with moulded plinth with multi-stage buttresses

Pointed C15 west window above with 5 pointed lights, unusual panel tracery, hood mould and head label stops.

Moulded eaves above with projecting gargoyles and battlements.

North aisle of c.1340 with moulded plinth and regularly placed 2 stage buttresses.

C14 inscribed tomb slab below.

Porch of c.1700, re-using C14 fragments possibly from Moulton Castle.

C14 inner doorway of porch with richly moulded pointed head, slender jambs with crenellated capitals, hood mould, head label stops and plank door.

Clerestory of c.1380 with 14 pointed windows, each with 2 ogee headed lights and hood mould.

Pedimented monument to left with ornate eared architrace and urn, to John March, died 1736.

South aisle of nave of c.1340 with pointed east window, with single pointed lights flanking an ogee headed light, flowing tracery, hood mould and head label stops.

Gabled C14 porch to left with very tall south doorway rising up into the gable, with pointed, moulded head, triple filleted jambs, hood mould and head label stops.

C14 door with reticulated tracery.

Interior tower arch of c.1330, with pointed head of 3 filleted orders and continuously roll and hollow moulded responds.

7 bay north and south arcades of c.1350 with pointed heads of 2 moulded orders with broad fillets

Chancel arch of c.1360 with pointed head, continuously moulded surround and hood mould. to south is a small doorway originally leading to rood loft, with panelled door.

Ornate C19 sedilia and piscina in a C14 style.

C19 communion rail, choir stalls, lecturns, pews, pulpit and roofs, the nave roof supported on C14 stone corbel heads.

Mid C14 octagonal font with tall traceried pedestal and each side of the bowl with crude figure holding emblem of the Passion.

Shield with lions rampant.

Table tomb to Sir Humphrey Littlebury of Holbeach Hurn, died c.1380

Shield with lions rampant.

© Michael Garlick

Early C15 brass to a knight without a head.

Brass to Joan Welby, died 1488, on a tomb chest.

Monuments include: white and grey marble with urn, festoons and pediment to Jonathon Watson, died 1773

2 ornate early C18 marble monuments with ionic pilasters, broken segmental pediment, cartouche, crests, cherubs, names and exact dates illegible

Plus several early C19 monuments of various designs.

2 illegible C17 gravestones and several C18 and C19 gravestones.