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All Saints

All Saints

Whetstone

Leicestershire

Largely late C13 to early C14, though with several identifiable phases of building,

Architectural Features

a C16 clerestory and Victorian restoration work.

Late C13 tower with four unequal stages with angle buttresses and paired foiled bell chamber lights.

Plain parapet and recessed spire which has one set of lucarnes and three tiers of carved heads at its angles.

Clerestory is a C16 addition with squared 2-light openings with hollow chamfered architraves and mullions.

Interior: C14 south arcade of five bays: the slender octagonal shafts are raised on square chamfered bases, and the arches are double chamfered.

West tower arch is rather earlier, late C13, steeply triple chamfered arch but filled in at ground floor level and largely obscured by the gallery of c1740.

Moulded tie beams have huge central bosses: some are heavy foliage others grotesque heads, one bearing a crown, one a green man.

One tie is dated 1630 with initials W.H.I.D. and Rob Biggs.

Integral late C13 piscina and sedilia to south, with clustered shafts and hollow chamfered mouldings.

Various wall memorial wall tablets including on the north wall in black marble with gold detailing.

To each side of the altar are memorial tablets apparently erected in the C19 but to members of families who deceased in the C18.

Stained glass largely of 1930's to 1950's.

Early font perhaps C12, plain round basin with slight rim moulding curving from a curved base.

Royal arms over south door.