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All Saints

Great Chesterford

Essex

A flint church with stone dressings of C13 origin with C14

Architectural Features

C15 alterations.

The west tower was destroyed in the C14-C15 and was rebuilt, it fell down in 1790 and was rebuilt in 1792.

The 2 western bays of the nave arcade and a lancet window in the chancel give evidence of the C13 origin.

The rest of the nave, the south aisle, the north chapel, the crossing and transepts are of the C14-C15.

The south chapel was rebuilt in the C16.

The roof of the south aisle is of the C16.

There are two C16 brasses, one (early) of a woman and another of a baby in swadling clothes The church forms the central feature of a good local group away from the village centre.