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All Saints

All Saints

Coleby

Lincolnshire

C11, C13, C14, C15 and C19.

Architectural Features

West tower Saxon with later C11 bell chamber

C15 bell openings, battlements pinnacles and spire.

Two small C11 openings, though west door

windows C15.

Nave, has three C15 clerestorey windows with a parapet above.

The north aisle has 2 rectangular C15 transom and mullioned windows with carved hood-mould stops.

The chancel is C13, with lancets, 3 stepped to the east, a finely carved corbel table and a small C19 vestry.

The south aisle is also C13, with an originally 2-storey porch to the west.

This porch protects a very fine C11 doorway, with 2 orders of shafts, capitals with leaf decoration, outer arch with lozenge-chains and inner with a roll.

Internally the tower arch is C11 but with a C15 arch fitted in to strengthen it.

The south arcade has C13 arches with stiff leaf capitals and double chamfered arches.

Two bay arcade with round pillars, scalloped capitals and square abacus, looks 12th century

The chancel arch is pointed but with the late Norman square abacus.

Two bay arcade with round pillars, scalloped capitals and square abacus, looks 12th century

© Richard Croft

The chancel itself is C13, originally with a C13 north transept chapel

a C14 south one, but only the arches to these survive.

The piscina is C13, and so is the double sedilia though the hoodmoulds were renewed in the C19.

A Norman drum font with intersecting arches, but later Early English polygonal angle shafts forming the four corners.

The font is Cll with interlocking arches.

A Norman drum font with intersecting arches, but later Early English polygonal angle shafts forming the four corners.

© Richard Croft

The pews were fitted in the C19, they were brought from Hackthorn Church, they have fine carved poppy heads.

Wall monument 1734.