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All Saints

All Saints

Church Town

Lincolnshire

Largely C14-C15, with reused C13 arches to nave arcades and C14 windows to north aisle.

Architectural Features

concrete tile roof to vestry.

first stage with pointed 2-light cinquefoiled west window with hoodmould, head stops and relief carving of shield above, pointed south door (probably inserted)

corble table, angle gargoyles, coped embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles.

South aisle: angle buttresses and buttresses between bays supporting shafts with worn gargoyles below parapet

2 pointed 3-light south windows with Perpendicular tracery, hoodmoulds with carved head and grotesque stops

Porch: pointed wave-and-hollow moulded outer arch beneath crocketed hoodmould with worn carved angel stops holding shields, string course above with tablet to centre bearing worn inscription with names of church wardens, shield and date 1755

moulded string course with mutilated carved figure to east side, coped embattled gable parapet.

moulded string course with carved head to west, coped parapet

Tall nave arcades of C13 pointed moulded arches with 2 keeled orders, hoodmoulds

head stops to inner face, roll-moulded soffit, and keeled and wave-moulded orders to outer face (apart from south-east bay, keeled to both sides), on C14-C15 octagonal piers with moulded and crenellated capitals and bell-shaped octagonal bases.

South aisle has chamfered arch to south door, mutilated corbelled image bracket with foliate carving to east wall.

C19 roofs throughout: 6-bay nave roof with corbelled wall shafts, moulded tie beams with pointed carved bosses, arch-braced principal rafters

Monuments.

C15 chest tomb in east bay of chancel arcade with 3 rectangular cusped panels bearing shields to north and south sides, one shield to south with arms in relief, the remainder blank.

Much worn C14 effigy of Knight in north chapel, made from a coped stone perhaps of Saxon origin, with head and feet in ogee reveals, shield and cross motif on top.

Small inscribed brass plate on chancel arcade pier to Elizabeth Taylor of 1728.

Black marble floorslabs in north chapel to Robert Ryther and others of 1693, and to Robert Ryther of 1695, both with incised mantled arms and crest in roundel.

Plain C13 circular bowl font with short cylindrical shaft and water-holding base on octagonal step.

2 small late medieval stained glass panels with coats of arms to south-west chancel window

remainder of stained glass is C19 and C20.

The fine chancel south windows have similar tracery to those in the tower at Saint Augustine's church, Hedon, by Robert Playser, 1427-37.