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All Saints

All Saints

Weston Underwood

Derbyshire

C11, C12, C13, C14, C15 and C18.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roof to porch with coped gables.

Lower bell stage to north has C12 paired bell openings with Gothic arches and polygonal shaft, embraced by a plain round arch on nook shafts, one missing.

C12 roof line visible to east.

SK2842 : Monkey head Gargoyle, All Saints, Muggington

Four gargoyles above.

SK2842 : Monkey head Gargoyle, All Saints, Muggington

© Rob Howl

The chancel east wall has diagonal buttresses, a three-light Perpendicular east window similar to those on the north side and a carved stone with the Staffordshire Knot above.

Carved stone to right with crest of the Sanders family.

Late C13 priest's door, re-set, with roll moulding and outer filletted roll moulding.

Early C14 south doorway of two chamfered orders, the arch with a roll and hollow moulding.

INTERIOR: round-arched C12 tower arch with keeled responds and double stepped arch.

Above it a round-arched window with deep splay, probably the west window of the C11 church.

Chancel arcade has carved capitals with heads and foliage motifs.

C15 parclose screen in south aisle.

C17 pews also in south aisle.

Monuments: table tomb with brasses to Joanna Knifeton 1475.

Wall tablet to Samuel Pole, died 1758, and on the north wall, a tablet to a person who died in 1687.

C15 octagonal font with quatrefoil motifs, completely recut in C19.

In the south west corner of the nave and on the underside of an arch in the chancel are traces of wall painting.

Stained glass: In the east window of the south aisle are C15 shields.

In the chancel south window are fragments of medieval glass.

Good C15 roofs throughout with chamfered tie beams and purlins and foliate bosses.

At the west end of the south aisle is a C17 bookcase and a board inscribed to Hugh Radcliffe.

In the sanctuary are two C19 wrought iron and brass standard lamps.

C19 brass communion rails.