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All Saints

Sandon

Hertfordshire

Nave and aisles rebuilt later C14

Architectural Features

W tower and S porch early C15

Tower buttressed C17

To S: two 2 light C14 windows with pointed arched panel traceried heads, hood moulds, that to E is shorter, separate string courses at sills, intermediate buttress

Clerestorey has 2 small C15 2 light square headed windows at E end, formerly lighting rood loft

N aisle: two 2 light C14 windows with pointed arched hexafoil traceried heads, to right of centre a door with triple moulded pointed arched surround, mask stopped hood moulds, to left of a central buttress a large 2 light C19 square headed window, end buttresses, coped parapet

S aisle E end: C14 window, 3 ogee headed lights, curvilinear tracery in an almost round arched head

4 bay nave arcades, pointed arches, double chamfered with broach stops over piers, hood moulds with small carved masks to S, octagonal piers with moulded caps and bases

Chancel N wall: C14 Easter sepulchre, depressed arched head, moulded surround with crocketed ogee finials, floral ornament

Good early C17 pulpit at NE corner of nave, octagonal, richly carved with brackets to reading board

C15 chancel screen, 5 bays, that to centre open, dado with cusped panels, moulded base, cusped ogee heads to open upper sections with panel tracery and crocketing above

Font in S aisle has C14 or C15 octagonal stem with 4 octagonal outer shafts with simply moulded caps and bases, C19 or early C20 bowl

At W end of nave are ten C15 benches with poppy head finials to ends, original seats, panelled backs with moulded rails at heads

Monuments: brass figures in nave floor at E end, J. Fitz-Geffrey, d.1480, in armour with wife, children and shields

Chancel S wall: marble cartouche to E. Nicholas d.1683, alabaster epitaph to E. Moryson, d.1626, with term figures in jambs and carved surround

Fragments of medieval glass at heads of N aisle windows and S aisle E window

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