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All Saints

All Saints

Madeley

Staffordshire

C12 core, extensively remodelled C14

Architectural Features

C15, chancel rebuilt in 1872 by Charles Lynam when the whole building was restored.

Pink sandstone ashlar, stone slate, plain tile and lead roofs.

Tower: probably c.1400, with stepped buttresses and rectangular stair turret at south-west corner

restored embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles and gargoyles beneath, 2-light trefoil-headed openings to belfry

west window with Perpendicular tracery and carved heads as labels

west door under Tudor arch.

Nave: partly C12 fabric

only C15 clerestory with restored tracery and crenellated parapet is visible above later aisles, both of two bays, that on north now with Decorated window tracery and that on south Perpendicular, of same build as clerestory

C14 north doorway with double chamfering and hoodmould.

Long gabled south porch probably extended in C17 but south door C15.

Both transepts are also C15 with renewed Perpendicular tracery and grotesque heads as labels.

1872 rebuilding of C13 structure in Decorated style, reticulated tracery.

North chancel chapel: (now vestry) C15 and in space between it and transept a small organ chamber of 1872.

INTERIOR: tall, narrow double-chamfered tower arch with, to the north, a wide, stepped buttress cutting through the west respond of the late C12 north nave arcade, suggesting that there was probably once a section of nave wall to the west

that the present west bay of the north aisle is a C14 addition

also of the same build, or a little later, is the former external lancet in the section of C12 wall east of the eastern respond of the arcade, made redundant first by the extension of the aisle to the east in C14 and then by the construction of the transept itself.

The C15 south nave arcade is in three bays with octagonal piers and capitals and to the east, after a short section of blank wall, a similar arch of the same build leads to south transept.

The wide, pointed double-chamfered chancel arch is early C13

the aisle roofs are medieval, C14 to north

a good panelled, coffered, cambered beam type to the south (C15).

Other woodwork includes the screen to the tower gallery , with heavy square balusters, and a C17 pulpit with its richly carved arches filled in with paintings of the symbols of the Evangelists amongst others

at the east end of the south aisle a restored C15 openwork screen with 12 one-light divisions

in the south transept a small communion table (C17) and in the north chancel chapel an oak chest with the inscription "RSWS/CW/1625".

The other most notable features are the octagonal Victorian font and the early C20 marble reredos (next to the blocked rood stair) in the south transept.

The stained glass is good throughout

see especially the East window by Clayton and Bell , the Kempe glass in the south transept south and east windows, and in window at the west end of the south aisle, glass by William Morris

only the figure of St Peter is by Morris himself, those of St Philip and Noah are by Ford Madox Brown and the small crucifixion below by Burne-Jones.

MONUMENTS: north transept

Randolph Egerton and wife, alabaster tomb-chest with incised figures of husband and wife on top, weepers to the sides within an architectural framework and twisted colonettes to the corners

John Crewe Offley an elaborate and large memorial with coat-of-arms and urn to the top

in the floor brasses to John Egerton and his wife, Elyn

Smaller monuments include a brass wall tablet with a kneeling figure to Robert Hawkins (north aisle) and a simple brass tablet to Charles Shaw (chancel south side).