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All Saints

All Saints

Church Leigh

Staffordshire

Rebuilt 1846 incorporating part of the Medieval tower.

Architectural Features

early C14 Decorated style.

highly decorative chancel floor tiles attributed to Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.

Fittings: Quatrefoil plan font by H. Jeavons

pewter eagle lectern, octagonal stone pulpit with trefoil-headed panelling to sides.

Monuments: Alabaster chest tomb of Sir John Ashenhurst d. 1520, reclining figures of Sir John and his wife, the former in plate armour with a lion at his feet, panelled sides with pairs of figures under twin crocketed ogee canopies

Three Stained Glass windows from All Saints Church, Church Leigh.
In addition to A.W.N.Pugin's east and west windows All Saints church has a fine array of stained glass windows, from fourteenth-century survivals reset by Hardman, windows by Edward Burne-Jones/William Morris, to modern work by local glass painter Graham Chaplin.

Stained glass: East window by William Wailes, south-east and north- east chancel windows contain medieval glass, 2 windows in north aisle, 1862 and 1868 by C.A. Gibbs of Bedford Square, William Morris and Sir Edward Burne-Jones were responsible for the West window 1874, the west windows of the aisles, 1890, the east window of the South aisle, 1913.

Three Stained Glass windows from All Saints Church, Church Leigh. In addition to A.W.N.Pugin's east and west windows All Saints church has a fine array of stained glass windows, from fourteenth-century survivals reset by Hardman, windows by Edward Burne-Jones/William Morris, to modern work by local glass painter Graham Chaplin.

© Paul Sumner