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All Saints

Cross Houses

Shropshire

Plain tile roofs continuous over nave and aisle

Architectural Features

Tower: C15.

chamfered plinth with moulded top, moulded string course to set-back belfry with carved central and end stops, diagonal buttresses with 6 offsets, moulded cornice with central water chute, and battlemented parapet to pyramidal roof with flagpole.

Belfry openings with 2 louvred cinquefoil-headed lights, Y-tracery, moulded reveals and hoodmoulds with carved stops

4 centred arched west window of 3 cinquefoil -headed lights with panelled tracery, hollow-chamfered reveals, and hoodmould with carved stops

Nave: C13.

South aisle: C13 with C14 alterations.

Two C19 windows to right with paired chamfered trefoil-headed lights, C14 west window in left-hand return front with pair of chamfered trefoil-headed lights, and C14 east window in right-hand return front with pair of chamfered trefoil-headed lights and octafoil in tracery

south doorway to left with chamfered Tudor archway and two 2-panelled doors.

Plinth, low angle buttresses, cill string, gable string course, and parapeted gable, reused C13 moulded archway with hood mould and carved stops, chamfered lancet in apex above, and pairs of square quatrefoil side windows with chamfered reveals.

Chancel: C14.

round-arched priests doorway off-centre to left with boarded door, and C17 memorial plaque beneath moulded hood above inscribed: "HERE.

DO1 , 1648 .

East end: C14 window with 3 cusped lights, flowing tracery and hoodmould.

4-bay C14 nave roof with arch-braced collars, arch braced rafters, moulded collar plate and moulded single purlins

2-bay C14 chancel roof

carved demi-figures high up in angle of nave and tower with chamfered square surrounds

richly carved C19 hexagonal wooden pulpit

C12 circular stone font with rude carving.

Stained glass: east window of before 1820 by David Evans.

Monuments: C13 wooden effigy of a cross-legged knight with chamfered-arched tomb recess in south aisle

tablet to Mrs. Greaves, died 1628,with Ionic columns flanking kneeling female figure

kneeling female figure with arm resting on sarcophagus, and crossed palms beneath.