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All Saints

All Saints

Eyeworth

Bedfordshire

C14 and C15, reworked C20

Architectural Features

Chancel: C15 rebuilding, C19 3-light E window

N and S elevations each have C15 square-headed 2-light window

S elevation also has 3-light segmental-headed window blocked by Anderson monument

C15 N doorway under square label with shield to spandrels

C14 chancel arch

Nave: C14

Pointed-arched 3-bay arcade to S. N elevation has C14 3-light window with C15 tracery

C14 pointed N doorway

Clerestory added C15

S aisle: C14

C15 rood staircase to NE angle

C14 pointed S doorway

W tower: C15

Interior: Chancel roof retains some C15 work

C15 altar rails with turned balusters

Fragments of medieval glass to various windows

C15 octagonal font to S aisle

Chancel has monuments to Anderson family: - SE to Sir Edmund Anderson, Lord Chief Justice of Court of Common Pleas

2 recumbant alabaster effigies on altar tomb, kneeling figures of children below, canopy supported by Corinthian columns and surmounted by heraldic cresting. - NE to Sir Francis Anderson, 1616

Kneeling figure of Sir Francis flanked by those of 2 wives

Kneeling figures of children below. - SW wall monument to Edmund Anderson (son of Sir Edmund), wife and daughter

Half figures of Edmund and wife hold a heart and are surmounted by semi-circular arches

Above this is open segmental pediment with allegorical figures

Below is another open segmental pediment containing half figure of child holding a book and flanked by allegorical figures

Chancel floor has brass with figures to Sir Richard Gadbury, 1624, and wife Margaret