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All Saints

All Saints

Kings Langley

Hertfordshire

Chancel C13, nave earlier but largely altered by building of C14 N aisle and its subsequent early C15 alteration to arcade when S aisle and S chapel rebuilt

Architectural Features

Later C15 N chapel and tower

1878 NE chapel built for C14 tomb of Edmund of Langley

Steep red tile roofs

The Chancel has a C13 double piscina with shelves, W window of 1877 in C15 style, 2-bay C15 4-centred arcade on N with engaged shafts opening to N chapel, a 2-bay early C15 S arcade with octagonal piers, jamb of C13 lancet window to E, a late C19 chancel arch, and an elatorate carved alabaster reredos of 1878 designed by Joseph Clarke

The N chapel has 2 late C15 square headed N windows each of 4 cinquefoil lights and one small window, a carved wooden screen to N aisle, in a C19 raised part at E the late C14 altar tomb of Edmund of Langley, son of Edward III, moved from the dissolved Friary church c.1539 to the chancel of this church and in 1878 to this specially built chapel, Queen Victoria presenting the armorial E window

This tomb has alabaster sides on a Purbeck marble plinth with carved shields on 3 sides (painted heraldically on W face). The present top slab is part of an altar with 3 of its 5 crosses

what may be the original slab is set in the floor of the N chapel with an indent of a woman's figure, near some medieval encaustic floor tiles

In the same chapel the chest tomb of Sir Ralph Verney d.1528 and wife with effigies, brass of John Carter d.1588 with 2 wives, 9 sons and 9 daughters

Queen Victoria Memorial Window 1901 by Clayton & Bell, and some fragments of old heraldic glass from former E window of N chapel

C19 W window but C15 S window of 4 lights

3-bays nave with early C15 arcades and clerestory of 6 2-light windows rebuilt in late C19

Hexagonal early C17 panelled and carved oak pulpit with tester and elaborately carved back

Tower arch late C15

The S aisle has a C13 piscina, a S window of 3 cinquefoil-headed lights and a C15 S doorway with continuous moulding

Stained glass of Mary and Martha by Ward & Hughes 1876

3-stage W tower with renewed W door, 3-light C15 W window within blocked arch of a larger window

4 C15 bell chamber openings similar

Buttresses much repaired with tiles in SPAB technique

Stained glass W window by Powell 1908.