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All Saints

Rampton

Cambridgeshire

TL 46NW RAMPTON CHURCH END (North Side) 5/123 Church of 31.8.62 All Saints II* Parish Church C12, C14

Architectural Features

Reed thatched roof to nave, slate to South aisle and tiles to chancel.

West tower is probably C15, but the pointed lancets suggest a possible earlier date.

Beast gargoyle masks to centre of each side of main cornice.

In the C14 the South aisle was added to the nave and the North wall was refenestrated.

The North wall of the nave is mainly sandstone rubble and probably C12.

There is an arch, C12, to a window, now blocked, in this wall.

Inner arch, C16, four centred with vacant niche above, part obscured by porch.

Chancel C14, South wall has a later two stage buttress to the chancel arch, part concealing the stop of one of the South wall windows.

Two C14 windows of two lights with reticulated tracery.

Above it in the gable end are shafts re-used and may date from the original C14 rebuild or may have been incorporated in 1924 when the window was renewed.

The chancel arch is C12 with three attached shafts with scallop capitals, abacus and moulded bases.

The arch itself is C14 however.

In the North wall of the chancel, a wall tomb, C14, with running foliate ornament to ogee arch, with effigy of a de L'Isle.

The pulpit is early C17, six sided with original tester, but the stem and base are C19 - C20.

The East wall of the chancel has fragments of pre:Conquest coffin slabs carved with interlace work reset in the wall.

The North wall of the nave also has two Saxon tomb slabs, and some wall painting probably of several dates, but the earlier with vine leaf tendrils and a figure of St. Christopher, C15.

The font is C12.