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All Saints (church Of England)

Dacorum

Hertfordshire

1882-3 by Carpenter & Ingelow, site given by Sir Nathaniel Mayer de Rothschild, porch with vestry at W added 1907-8 by William Huckvale in place of intended tower, 6 buttresses added on S, and E wall reconstructed (tablet in porch). Many features dating from C12 to C17 built into church removed from old church of All Saints (q.v.), and from elsewhere

Architectural Features

Flint, knapped uncoursed facing with Bath stone dressings and steep machine-made red tile roofs

Chancel marked off from 3-bays nave by heavy C15 tie-beam with massive cusped curved braces and traceried spandrels, brought from Weston Turville old rectory in 1883 then being pulled down on advice of Sir Gilbert Scott

Similar cusping on arched wind-braces to 2 E bays of N aisle, the framing of which is also from the same source (Vincent(1983)7). Tall 5-bays N arcade has arches and caps of 1883 carried on elaborate shafted C15 clunch piers and bases from the parish church at Tring (q.v.) then under repair by the same architects

The nave and chancel of the old church of All Saints Long Marston were carefully demolished in 1883 and among the many features transfered to the new church were: C14 octagonal stone font with bowl cut back

C14 trefoil piscina with shelf in S wall of chancel

C15 trefoil piscina in E part of N aisle

early C17 hexagonal pulpit with 2 tiers of carved panels

C15 traceried oak screen with central opening enclosing E end of N aisle

C17 oak altar table in N aisle

2 C17 oak chests

C13 recess in N wall of chancel with pointed arch and dog-tooth ornament

C14 arch and moulded label to S door

wide segmental pointed arched recess in E part of N aisle with C12 architectural fragments built in

N doorway possibly C14

a wide round arched recess in N aisle of late C12 work with roll moulding between bands of dog-tooth to arch carried on small shafts with scalloped caps and square abaci, and drain in base

2 2-light C14 N windows with trefoil lights and quatrefoil over (one window has square recess in splay)

Andrews, Wells Street, London and 5 painted figures were installed in 1933 designed by Sir Albert Richardson

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