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All Saints

Architectural Features

enlarged early - mid C13

late C14

dripmould with carved head stops

pointed north door with outer roll moulding, hood mould with carved stops.

South doorway is C12, columns with scalloped capitals

The nave and north aisle roofs are C19, but rest on a good collection of C14

C15 carved corbel heads.

ST4971 : All Saints, Wraxall: pulpit

The pulpit, lectern, organ and benches are also mid - late C19, in a Perpendicular style

ST4971 : All Saints, Wraxall: pulpit

© Basher Eyre

the screens are by Blomfield and particularly well carved.

C15, octagonal, ashlar, with 2 blank arches on each side

on the pier adjoining the font is a stone book-rest supported on a demi-figure of an angel.

Glass: a good collection of glass by C.E. Kempe from 1896, donated by the first Lord Wraxall

in the room above the porch is a late C15 lancet representing the Five Wounds, on a shield held by an angel.

Monuments.

Chancel: early C16 tomb chest to Sir Edmund and Lady Gorges in armour and robes with a finely carved front of heraldry flanked by angels

simple inscribed marble plaque to Thomas Holt, died 1687.

North aisle: L. Lucas, died 1807, marble seated figure against a curved pedestal

The church is prominently situated and is a fine landmark with excellent details of Perpendicular style architecture (both mediaeval and late C19 by Blomfield).