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All Saints

All Saints

Newchurch

Isle of Wight

NEWCHURCH SZ58NE HIGH STREET (East side) 1352-0/1/144 Church of All Saints 18/01/67 I Parish church.

Architectural Features

North wall of nave C12, rest of nave C13 with aisles rebuilt in C14

C15, chancel in C16, south transept enlarged in C18 and upper part of tower added in late C18.

Nave of 4 bays with octagonal piers and double chamfered pointed arches, probably early C14.

West wall has early C14 Y tracery window and octagonal window above.

Pointed arched door with medieval oak studded plank door.

Door to porch has a pointed arch within a cambered arch and medieval plank door with studs.

Crossing has early C13 North, South and East arches with 3 slight chamfers.

A lancet window above the east arch between nave and chancel is the remains of a C13 crossing tower.

Early C18 wooden pulpit on stone panelled base.

Perpendicular gilded wooden lectern in form of rulning pelican from Frome in Somerset.

North Transept has a double round-headed window on the east side and Y tracery early C14 window to east.

Late C17 roof with chamfered tie beam and 7 cants.

North wall has marble plaque to Jane Billington of Knighton Gorges d 1674, a rectangular marble plaque with shield above, and a plaque to Sir Robert Dillington of Knighton Gorges d 1689, a circular marble monument with shield and cupid's head.

Chancel has north early C13 window with 3 lancets, east window Perpendicular with 3 cinquefoil-headed lancets and south window with 2 triple cinquefoil-headed lancets.

Chamfered tie beam to roof, chamfered with lamb's tongue stop, dated 1685 with the name Richard Edgecombe (the incumbent of the time who lived at Parsonage Farmhouse see item 1/157).

C8

Series of C18 and early C19 wall plaques. (Buildings of England:Lloyd D:Hampshire and the Isle of Wight:749).