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All Saints

All Saints

Broad Chalke

Wiltshire

Late C13, C14, C15, restorations 1847 and 1920

Architectural Features

Two-storey C15 porch has moulded pointed doorway with 2-light Perpendicular window and image niche over

frieze with rosettes and gargoyles to battlemented parapet

C13 north transept has two lancets to east and 3-light window with geometric tracery, attached shafts and angle buttresses to north

West end has C13 chamfered pointed doorway with attached shafts, 5-light Perpendicular window over

Three-stage tower has string courses, square clockface and cusped lancet to south side, bellstage with 2- light square=headed cusped windows with louvres and hoodmoulds, moulded string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet

Interior: Porch has 1920s rib-panelled roof, upper floor removed, stone benches, moulded pointed C14 doorway with ogee crocketed stoup to left

Nave has C15 four-bay king-post roof on fine stone angel-brackets, blocked doorway on south wall formerly to upper room of porch

C14 crossing with half-arch buttresses at east end of nave

on carved corbels

Late C13 north transept has good trefoiled piscina and aumbry on east wall, original arch-braced collar rafter roof

Chancel also late C13, has restored 3-bay arch-braced collar truss roof, two-seat sedilia with cusped pointed heads, moulded string course carried over south door, rere-arches to lancets

Fittings: C17 box pews in crossing and at west end

C17 reading desk and octagonal pulpit with barleysugar balusters to steps

C15 octagonal stone font with cusped panels and Cl9 cover

Fragment of Saxon cross shaft on south wall of nave

1880s stained glass in chancel dedicated to Rev

Probable that the church once had, or was intended to have aisles, possibly in C13.