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All Saints

All Saints

Sutton

Bedfordshire

C13 origins, C14 and C15, with some C16 and C17 reworkings

Architectural Features

Chancel: C13 origins, remodelled C14

C14 3-light pointed-arched E window, only central light trefoiled

S wall has 2 2-light segmental-headed windows, C19 reworkings, flanking small C15 4-centred arched doorway and pointed head of blocked doorway

Nave: C13 origins

4-bay pointed- arched arcades to both sides, N arcade C14, S arcade C13

C15 clerestory has 5 windows per side, E ones of 3 lights, others of 2 lights

N aisle: C14, E bay forming N chapel

3-light pointed-arched E window, reworked C15

N elevation has 2 C16 4-centred arched 3-light windows, E one blocked

C15 3-light pointed-arched W window

S aisle: C13 E window, 2-light W window, one 3-light and one 2-light S window, all square- headed with mullions and tracery replaced C19

Nave and aisles have C15 embattled parapets

S porch: C15

Tower: C15 repaired C17

N aisle retains C15 roof with moulded timbers and bosses, 2 of supporting stone corbels with decorative carvings

Rood screen C15 with C19 cornice

Variety of pewing, C16 and C17

Pulpit dated 1628, with sounding board of c.1730 imported 1841 from Everton Church (pers. comm. C Pickford, Beds Record Office). C14 cylindrical font on quatrefoil stem to N aisle

C14 ornamental piscina and sedilia to chancel

N chapel has monument to John Burgoyne, 1604, a recumbant effigy, flanked by columns supporting pediment with heraldic shields, with strapwork ornamentation

Marble wall monument to Sir John Burgoyne, 1709, by E. Stanton, in form of reredos with 2 mourning cherubs

Marble wall monument to Sir Roger Burgoyne, 1677, with urn and putti upon a strigillated sarcophagus, below which is tablet flanked by drop garlands

S aisle has wall monument to John Symcotte d.1649 and Elizabeth his wife, d.1646