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All Saints

Cople

Bedfordshire

Circa 1430, C16 and C18

Architectural Features

Chancel: C15

N chapel: C16

3-light E window contains some C15 work

S chapel: C16

Nave: C15

N aisle: C15, windows reworked C19

N doorway re-uses some C14 work

S aisle: C15, windows reworked C19

W tower: C15

Interior: 2 altar-tombs to chancel, one to Walter Luke, 1544, and wife Anne Launcelyn, 1538, the brass retaining traces of inlaid colour, other of C16 with brasses to Thomas Grey and Benet (Launcelyn) his wife, and their sons and daughters

Chancel floor has brass to John Launcelyn and wife Margaret, 1435, reusing C14 brass (F.W. Kuhlicke, "A Palimpsest Brass at Cople", Beds Arch. Journal, vol 7, 1972, pp.87-88). Other C15 and C16 brasses in N and S chapels

Angel corbels bearing shields (Grey and Launcelyn) to chapel arcades

C20 chancel roof, others C15

Choir stalls retain 4 late C15 poppy-heads and 2 old linenfold panels

Late C16 pewing

3 central bays of 5-bay rood screen are late C15.