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All Saints

Landbeach

Cambridgeshire

C13 chancel extended mid C14 and west tower rebuilt, spire late C14, nave arcades and aisle C14.

Architectural Features

Clerestorey added and aisles widened with south porch mid C15.

Nave roof, C15 with reused C14 tie beams, restored in mansard form possibly by John Tinkler, Rector in C19.

Roofs of lead and plain tiles.

Tower of three stages with moulded plinth band and embattled parapet with corner gargoyles and four stage angle buttresses.

South porch with stone date 1613 has two-centred arched doorway and two reset gargoyles.

Nave roof of four bays with carved angel hammer beams alternating with earlier C14 tie beams, moulded principal timbers with carved bosses at intersections and cornice and soffit of tie beams enriched with fleurons and other details.

Aisle roofs of four bays with pierced decoration to braced wall posts supported on carved angel corbels.

Wall painting in nave, modern font on medieval base.

Piscenae and stoup in south aisle, Easter Sepulchre altered as monument in north aisle.

C15 glass fragments in windows, some pieces identified as Lady Margaret, foundress of St Johns and Christs Colleges, and her parents John and Margaret Beaufort.

Chancel stalls with misericords , restored C15 pews, pulpit removed from Jesus College in 1778 with carved panels of smiths tools.

Lectern possible C17, Dutch, wooden angel on pedestal.

C13 tomb canopy in nave, two boards of commandments.

Monuments include fine brass indents, tomb to Wm Master d. 1798.