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All Saints

All Saints

Poyntington

Dorset

C12 nave walling, C14 south aisle, north porch, west tower, with top stage added in C15.

Architectural Features

Clay-tile roofs to nave and chancel.

Nave: square C14 buttress at junction with chancel.

Eastern window, C14, of 2 trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in a 2-centred head with a label.

C16 middle window is of 3 three-centred lights in a square head.

C14 west window has a trefoil in the head.

North porch, C14, with two-centred outer archway of 2 orders.

West tower, two stages, with a plain parapet, gargoyles and turret rising above the parapet.

Bell-chamber has in each wall an early C15 window of 2 trefoiled lights with a trefoil in a 2-centred head, with a label.

South aisle, C14, has an early C16 east window of four triangular-headed lights in a square head.

The south wall has 2 partly restored C14 2-light windows with square heads.

The south doorway has C14 jambs of 2 moulded orders, with the 4-centred arch a later alteration.

West wall has an early C14 window of two pointed lights in a pointed head.

Interior: nave roof late C15 of segmental barrel form with moulded ribs forming 5 bays each of 4 panels.

The intersections have foliated bosses, and the moulded plates have carved paterae.

C15 roof of the south aisle is of pent form, and compartmented with moulded beams.

Below the wall-plates are 7 C14 head-corbels.

C19 piscina and carved credence shelf.

Fittings: font, tapering cylindrical bowl, with band of cable-ornament, C12.

Piscinae: two of the C14 in nave and south aisle.

Recesses, for tombs, in south aisle, two with moulded jambs, cinquefoiled 4-centred arches and defaced labels, C14.

Monuments and floor-slabs, C17 and C18.

Seating: pews with moulded styles and tops, C17. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 186.(1)).