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All Saints

All Saints

Roydon

Norfolk

TF 62 SE 1/76 ROYDON CHURCH LANE Church of All Saints 15.8.60 II* Parish church, 1857 by G.E Street, incorporating C12 doorways

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Architectural Features

C13

C13 tower.

TILES

Uncoursed random Sandringham sandstone with pink stone dressings, plain tiles.

C13

C13 west tower of uncoursed flint with limestone dressings, diagonal buttresses

FIGURES

'Y tracery west window with figure stops, probably all of 1857

C12

C12 north and south doorways reset, each with semi-circular head of three orders, zig-zag to middle order

C12

C19 chancel arch in C12 style, two orders of dogstooth and roll mouldings, decorative corbels to jambs

After a lightning strike in the 1850s the church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2105427 had to be almost entirely rebuilt. The architect was GE Street, who became famous for designing churches all over England but All Saints' church is a rare example of his work in the neo-Norman style. Only the 14th century tower remained unchanged, and both the north > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2105447 and south > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2105442 doorways are original Norman. Both doorways have Victorian doors with elaborate ironwork decorations. The chancel > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2105455 was designed so that a choir should lead the singing as was fashionable at the time, and the chancel arch is a fine example of neo-Norman design. The baptismal font is also neo-Norman.
FONT

Square sandstone font of 1857 colonettes and central sandstone pier.

After a lightning strike in the 1850s the church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2105427 had to be almost entirely rebuilt. The architect was GE Street, who became famous for designing churches all over England but All Saints' church is a rare example of his work in the neo-Norman style. Only the 14th century tower remained unchanged, and both the north > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2105447 and south > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2105442 doorways are original Norman. Both doorways have Victorian doors with elaborate ironwork decorations. The chancel > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2105455 was designed so that a choir should lead the singing as was fashionable at the time, and the chancel arch is a fine example of neo-Norman design. The baptismal font is also neo-Norman.

© Evelyn Simak

C14

C14 tall double chamfered arch to tower.