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All Saints

All Saints

Mackworth

Derbyshire

In the chancel, early C14 sedilia and piscina, re-cut in C19.

Architectural Features

In the north aisle at the east end are two C14 canopied niches for saints and on the north wall a broad double niche.

SK3237 : All Saints, Mackworth - Font

Rich Dec style octagonal font of c1870 with nodding ogee arches around the bowl Monuments: Tomb chest to Edward Mundy, died 1607 (south aisle), alabaster effigy with children along the front of the chest.

SK3237 : All Saints, Mackworth - Font

© John Salmon

Angels on twisted columns.

Carved canopy over the vestry door, of 1886.

Angel corbels supporting a richly carved marble and alabaster crocketed ogee arch, with flanking twisted colonnettes, surmounted by three winged angels.

Pulpit, 1896, of Derbyshire alabaster and green Irish marble on a Dorset marble base.

Yesterday the almost 700 year old church was destroyed by fire in what maybe was another arson attack. Such an intricate work of art to be destroyed by possibly senseless vandalism.

For other detail see [[6695801]], 
[[6695796]],
[[6695797]] 
and [[6695799]].

Lectern of 1903 by Charles Lomas of Derby.

Yesterday the almost 700 year old church was destroyed by fire in what maybe was another arson attack. Such an intricate work of art to be destroyed by possibly senseless vandalism. For other detail see [[6695801]], [[6695796]], [[6695797]] and [[6695799]].

© Malcolm Neal

Carved from a single block of Chellaston alabaster, a vine climbing up the stem and ending in leaves and grapes below the bible support.

Stained glass east window of 1851 with figures of saints, characteristic of its date.