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All Saints

All Saints

Kirkby Mallory

Leicestershire

Early C14 with C15 west tower and early C18 alterations

Architectural Features

On the south side of the nave there is a buttress at each extremity, the western one having a C17/C18 bronze sundial fixed to it

above and to the sides are figures within semi-circular arches.

it is strengthened by posts standing on corbels from which carved braces extend to the tie beams.

Fixtures and fittings: Font of 1906 in the form of an angel holding a shell shaped basin

C18 hexagonal pulpit with raised and fielded panels.

Simple rood screen forming a 3-bay arcade on cylindrical columns with moulded caps, and simple tracery in the spandrels.

The priests bench is dated 1615 and is attached to choir stalls with carved panels of stylized foliage and bench ends surmounted by poppy heads.

Early C17 Gothic oak reredos comprising 4 panels each framed by a semi-circular arch on cylindrical shafts and containing 4 lancets and debased Perpendicular tracery beneath a rose of swirling mouchettes.

Monuments: 2 incised slabs, one of 1404 or earlier.

Sir William Noel, died 1697

large wall monument with gadrooned base, broken semi-circular pediment containing a coat of arms flanked by festoons and surmounted by an urn spouting flame.

Sir William Noell, died 1675

SK4500 : All Saints, Kirkby Mallory - Stained glass window

Stained glass: the east and south windows of the chancel are by Kempe, both 1894.

SK4500 : All Saints, Kirkby Mallory - Stained glass window

© John Salmon