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All Saints

All Saints

Tilney All Saints

Norfolk

Late C12 nave

Architectural Features

chancel, late C13

C14 west tower, spire 1428.

Nave and chancel aisles remodelled C15.

Battlements added 1523-1525.

South clerestory windows run as follows from west : encircled quatrefoil, two 2-light square headed windows, three 3-light depressed arched C15 windows, in chancel three 3-light square-headed windows.

Late C13 inner doorway with column supporting naturalistic foliage carving.

Two flat clasping buttresses of C12 date frame 5-light transomed C15 east window.

Early C14 north door below plain 2-light square-headed window.

C13 tower connected to nave by one C14 bay with double chamfered arch.

Late C12 7-bay arcade (extending 2 bays into chancel) of drum piers on water-holding bases with waterleaf, scalloped or crocket capitals support rebated semi-circular arches.

Remarkable late C15 hammerbeam roof with two registers of hammers.

Alternate trusses drop on wall posts to corbels in form of angels bearing scrolls.

These angels immediately below statues of prophets in canopied niches.

Secondary trusses have hammer beams carved as angels with open books, main trusses have angels bearing tablets.

Upper, false, hammer beams with flight of winged angels bearing books and tablets.

C19 chancel hammerbeam roof with angels bearing shields.

Moulded purlins, principals and collars are C15 survivals.

C15 stepped sedilia in chancel south wall with cusped ogee heads to each bay below cornice.

Chancel screen dated 1618.

4-bay late C15 parclose screens to chancel aisles with Perpendicular tracery and crenellated top rails.

Handsome C17 altar rails of arched bays divided by muntins against which are turned balusters.

C17 octagonal font with traceried stem and bowl decorated with alternating biblical verses and geometric patterns.

Painted Royal Arms to Queen Anne date 1711 at west end of south aisle within original frame.