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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 June 2022 to correct a typo in text 832/23/259 HUNDON CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS 19-DEC-61 II* C14 chancel

Architectural Features

aisles, the rest largely C15

C16 with some post-medieval repairs.

The church had reached its present extent by the C14.

The aisles have early C14 windows with ogee reticulated tracery toward their West ends, and there are good mid C14 windows with flowing tracery in the North and South walls of the chancel.

No West door, but a very tall West window of the later C14 with two, transomed lights.

The church was remodelled in the late C15

early C16, and the rest of the aisle windows, the East window and those in the South chapel were originally of this date.

Two-storied C15 South porch, very badly damaged, with the remains of statue niches on the buttresses and flint flush work blind arcading, repaired in brick, on the upper story.

The South door is late C14.

The clerestory was also entirely rebuilt at this time, and has late C15 or early C16-style windows of three uncupsed lights in four-centred heads.

The nave arcades are in a C14 style, with polygonal piers, moulded capitals, and pointed, chamfered arches.

The late C15 doorway to the rood stair survives at the East end of the North aisle, and there are four medieval roof corbels surviving in the North aisle and two in the South aisle.

The wide chancel arch is in a C15 style, with polygonal responds, moulded capitals and finely moulded arch.

The South chapel opens to the chancel through a C15 style arch with unusual triple respond shafts that terminate in a blank section at the bottom, apparently an alteration by Blow and Billerey.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES Restored C14 piscina in the chancel, and another in the North aisle.

Woodwork with blind tracery in the South chapel is late medieval and survived the fire because it was in the vicarage at the time.

Royal arms of George III.

Early C20 font, polygonal without a division between bowl and stem.

Loose in the church, a few fragmentary monuments including parts of a C13 monument, and the wheatsheaf finial from the monument to Mrs Arethusa Vernon , an imposing pyramidal tomb formerly located in the churchyard and demolished in 1983.

The earliest surviving fabric is early C14, however,

there is evidence much C15

early C16 work.