← Database
All Saints

All Saints

Wrabness

Essex

Mainly C12-C15, restored and extended in C19 and C20.

Architectural Features

Rubble, mainly cement-rendered, and some red brick in Flemish bond, with limestone dressings, roofed with handmade red clay tiles.

Nave early C12, altered in the C15, extended in 1908.

Chancel early C14, repaired in 1697.

The Chancel is cement-rendered, of rubble reported by the RCHM to be of septaria, with part of the N wall of exposed brick, rebuilt after a collapse in 1697 reported in the parish register.

In the N wall is a window, C19/20 except the C14 asymmetric splays and chamfered segmental-pointed rear-arch.

In the S wall is a window, C19/20 except the C14 splays and chamfered segmental-pointed rear-arch.

The early C14 Chancel-arch is 2-centred, of 2 chamfered orders, the outer continuous, the inner resting on semi-octagonal shafts with moulded capitals.

The roof of the Chancel is ceiled in 7 cants, rebuilt after a collapse in 1697, apparently in the original form.

The RCHM reported that the E wall was rebuilt after the collapse of the Chancel in 1697.

the eastern is C19/20 except parts of the C15 moulded label with decayed headstops, and possibly the splays and rear-arch, which are plastered

Between them is the early C12 N doorway, with a distorted semi-circular arch of 2 plain orders enclosing a rubble tympanum supported by a segmental arch

At the E end of the wall is the late C15 lower doorway to the rood-stair, with hollow-chamfered jambs and 4-centred arch, blocked.

In the S wall are 2 windows, C19/20 except the C15 moulded label of the eastern.

Between them is the early C15 S doorway, with moulded jambs, 2-centred arch and label

Above it is part of the head of the early C12 doorway, with a plain semi-circular arch and billet-moulded label.

The roof of the original part of the Nave is C15, in 3 bays, of single hammer-beam construction with king-posts.

Hammer-beams and wall-pieces are sawn off obliquely, implying the removal of carved saints or angels.

The C15 font has an octagonal bowl with panelled sides, each carved with an evangelistic symbol or seated saint, all defaced

the underside of the bowl has defaced half-angels at the angles, all but 2 defaced, with rosettes between them

the buttressed stem has defaced figures and a C20 metal supporting structure.

Set in the W wall of the S porch is a C13 coffin-lid with foliate cross on a stepped calvary, found under the floor of the Chancel in 1697.