All Saints

Saxon porticus against north side of tower has its north and west walls intact with a C12 segmentally-arched north doorway inserted within a Saxon round arch of two orders, the inner with imposts, the outer with plinth blocks and capital blocks to pilastered jambs and with round-arched hoodmould worked on the voussoirs.

Part of a significant Saxon church most of which was replaced in the fourteenth century https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1193267?section=official-list-entry

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Moulded plinth, buttresses between bays with square-headed windows of three ogee lights beneath hoodmoulds with head-carved stops

North windows as south with animal and full-figure stops to the hoodmouds.

Chancel: C12 rubblework heightened late C15.

Narrow C19 priest's door with flat buttress on left and remains of C12 window above

5-light east window set above a C12 buttress and string course and flanked by buttresses of same date.

C17 or C18 north vestry with double-chamfered single-light window

North arcade: probably re-used cylindrical piers of c1190 with differing capitals and 2-order pointed arches with chamfered and moulded orders, hoodmoulds rise from angel corbels

C14 eastern respond of north arcade has tripled shafts and fillets and knight carved on the hoodstop.

South arcade: late C14

Dado of Perpendicular ashlar rood screen with castellation

Medieval altar slab at east end of south aisle has five incised crosses.

C14 font, beneath tower: octagonal with tracery motifs to castellated top.

Monuments: 1696 brass over vestry door to Johannes Mirfin

Various other C17 and C18 wall monuments, also early C17 floor slabs beneath the altar.

Late C15 cross slab now near font, others in the floor, detailed elsewhere (Ryder, p81).

Outstanding church of the region, both for its Saxon north door and for the quality of its late C14 rebuilding.

P. Ryder, Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, County Archaeology Monograph No 2, 1982 pp71-83 and plate VIII.

This ancient porticus is situated at the north entrance to All Saints Church. It contains Saxon work making it one of the oldest surviving man-made structures in South Yorkshire http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-335984-church-of-all-saints-laughton-en-le-mort

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