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All Saints

All Saints

Cadney

Lincolnshire

Mid C12 arcade with early C13 east bay, C13 tower

Architectural Features

chancel, early C14 south aisle, C15 porch, upper stage and parapet to tower.

Mid - late C15 chancel and chapel parclose screens.

south side has blocked pointed door with chamfered jambs and hollow chamfered arch with hood-mould, 2 lancets with hood-moulds, single headstop, and sill string course cut by trefoiled lancet with hood-mould and carved stops

4-bay south arcade: three C12 west bays of plain round arches on cylindrical piers with plain moulded bases on tall square chamfered plinths, and fluted, scalloped and simple stiff-leaf capitals

fourth bay, to east chapel (traditionally known as Newstead Chapel) has wide double-chamfered arch with chamfered jambs to west, and inner order to east on moulded carved head corbel.

East pier has inserted C14 niche with base supported by rustic carved figure with upraised arms, and crocketed trefoiled ogee arch flanked by carved heads supporting buttress shafts with crocketed finials.

Tall pointed double-chamfered tower arch with hood-mould, chamfered jambs and plain moulded imposts with crudely-carved heads.

Pointed double-chamfered chancel arch has moulded imposts, chamfered jambs and inner order on moulded corbels with carved grotesque to north, fine Green Man to south.

carved head corbel to east wall

5-bay chancel screen with wide entrance flanked by narrower bays containing pointed lights with remnants of Perpendicular tracery, ornate carved spandrels to east face, blind 2-light traceried lower stage with restored panels, moulded stiles, top and mid rails.

Chapel west screen: 5 full bays with door to second bay, each bay with 3-light openings with intersecting tracery, crocketed foiled ogee heads to lights with tracery above and pierced and carved spandrels, plain panels below, moulded stiles, top and mid rails

The Norman font.

Romanesque drum font with scallop moulding above blind arcading of intersecting round arches on piers with foliate capitals

The Norman font.

© Julian P Guffogg

Moveable font with octagonal ashlar bowl on C19 wooden stand.

C16 wooden pedestal Poor Box in south chapel on tapered square column with plain moulded capital, iron fixing loops to side of rectangular box.

South chapel has C13 ashlar grave slab with cross in relief

inscribed floor slab of 1699 to Robert and Elizabeth Pye of Cadney.

Traces of wall paintings to nave: inscription on east wall dated from names of churchwardens to 1724

on south jamb of tower arch, part of C16 psalm inscription with figure.

Fragments of moulded stone, including medieval graveslabs, inside tower.