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Old Church Of All Saints

Ridgmont

Bedfordshire

C12 to C19 Variety of local materials including limestone, clunch, large cobbles, ironstone and cement rendered brickwork

Architectural Features

Chancel: C12 with later details

S wall has 2 late medieval clunch dressed windows, one adapted from a Norman predecessor, both blocked with red brick

Norman chancel arch with impost bands towards chancel with some zigzag decoration

C12 origins extended northwards C13 with an aisle, and probably also westwards, S wall retains blocked Norman doorway and western respond for a S aisle never completed

W part of C14 pointed arched 4-bay arcade is in clunch, E part in ironstone with 1820's heightening above in rubble and brick

N aisle: C13 with later reworkings

N porch: early C19 remodelling of earlier, probably C14, structure: W elevation retains small trefoiled light

Scheduled Ancient Monument.

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