All Saints

mid C14

late C15

C12 nave largely rebuilt after fire 1465-1470.

Nave south wall high flat- chamfered plinth: tall C18 three-light window with round-headed lights with carved spandrels

early C20 plank door up 12 stone steps, within a Tudor-arched surround to C18 gallery C15 studded plank door within fillets, strap hinges, blind tracery, early lock and closing ring attachments within porch.

C12 surround with jamb shafts with scalloped capitals supporting a roll-moulded arch with imposts and a recessed tympanum with diapered decoration

Late C15 Lady Chapel with flat-chamfered plinth: pointed 4-light Perpendicular south window with stopped hood

projecting base possibly for a stoup or a small statue, lower left: probably C16 incised outline of a Manticore (a beast with a man's head and lions hind quarters) lower right

C15 battlemented parapet on both sides of, and at the east end, of the nave

Gargoyle

© Alan Longbottom

string below the parapet with fine gargoyles including two muzzled bears

Late C15 north chapel moulded plinth and diagonal buttresses: 3-light Perpendicular north window with stopped hood.

Three-stage tower: lower 2 stages C12 with clasping buttresses (south-west buttress containing newel stair added C15)

The first floor stage of the north and south walls retain single narrow C12 windows one with a round head and a relieving arch, one with a flat-chamfered segmental head and rebated surround.

Possibly C16 two-light west window with hollow- moulded 4-centred arched heads to each light, carved spandrels and hood with crudely carved stops

single central shaft rises up to a lintel with carved head corbels and moulded corbels on the east and west.

The upper parts of the windows on the north and south sides were removed late C15 due to fire.

Projecting gabled C14 porch with hanging slate to the gable

SP0107 : All Saints, North Cerney - Wall monument

© John Salmon

monument to William Croome, died 1886 on the right-hand return.

C14 wagon roof (formerly plastered).

Guttering over the William Croome monument decorated with vine scroll, dated and initialled 'W.I.C. 1940'.

Plastered interior: 5 bay nave with a C15 coffered oak ceiling with moulded and cambered tie beams each with a short king post and two short struts

wall posts with pierced brackets, some supported on fine large C15 carved head corbels.

Carved and painted bosses at the panel intersections of the easternmost bay.

Coffered wagon roof to the south chapel (possibly C15), early C20 coffered wagon. roof to the north chapel: both roofs with carved bosses at the intersections of the panels.

Three- light stone-mullioned window (now blocked) with Tudor-headed lights over the chancel arch (above rood).

Passage squint and flat-chamfered Tudor-arched doorway to stairs to the rood loft from the south transept.

Rood loft and screen to the south chapel in C15 style by F.C. Eden (q.v. lych gate).

C16 Italian figure of Christ on the rood screen.

late C15 octagonal font inside the north door.

Stone chalice- shaped pulpit of c1480 left of the chancel arch, cut from a single stone block with blind tracery and crocketing.

Early pulpit dating c. 1480

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The three bands of lily pattern suggest the font may be by Burford masons.

Restored wooden reading desk with carved panels one initialled and dated 'W.C. 1631', three with carved heads right of the chancel arch.

Flemish brass eagle lectern of c1450 on a C15 Spanish steel stand.

Wooden altar table with turned legs within the north chapel C19 stone altar table within the south chapel with three C15 statues on the reredos.

Medieval stone altar slab on a later stone base

C17 carved oak chair

Central early C18 chased brass chandelier at the crossing.

Monuments: C12 grave slab with foliated cross (found in nave) reused in the nave north wall

two early reused carved beast's head corbels, reused from the upper stage of the tower either side

C12 shaft depicting three figures with the Virgin and child at the centre.

Figure of a manticore (a creature with the body and tail of a lion and head and shoulders of a man), on the South wall of the South transept.

© Alan Longbottom

The east window depicts the crucifixion flanked by single figures.

Late C18 or early C19 figure of St. Nicholas.