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All Saints

All Saints

Sutton-on-Trent CP

Nottinghamshire

C13, C14, C15: Mering Chapel c.1525: C19: tower restored 1902-03 by William Weir, and further restored 1956-58.

Architectural Features

West tower, C13

C15, with C19 buttresses, three stages.

Gargoyles and battlements of the north side of the clerestory.

Rendered plinth, two string courses, eaves band with remains of gargoyles, crenellated parapet and four crocketed pinnacles.

Gargoyles and battlements of the north side of the clerestory.

© Alan Murray-Rust

To west, C13 doorway with hood mould and leaded overlight.

Second stage has four C13 double lancet openings with flanking shafts, chamfered mullions and surrounds.

Third stage has to east and south late C15 double lancets with Y tracery, splayed mullions and reveals.

Nave, six bays, has clerestory, c.1525.

Chamfered eaves band with gargoyles, crenellated parapet and east gable with remains of cross.

North aisle, C14

C15, restored, three bays, has chamfered plinth and eaves and coped gables.

West end has C14 triple lancet, with ogee heads, panel tracery, chamfered and rebated reveal and hood mould with mask stops.

North side has three restored C15 triple lancets, the central lancet smaller, with ogee heads, Decorated tracery, splayed mullions, chamfered and rebated reveals, and hood moulds with mask stops.

East end has C13 triple lancet with intersecting tracery, splayed mullions, chamfered and rebated reveal.

South aisle C14

C15, four bays, has plinth and coved eaves band with rosettes and two spouts.

South side has to east, two C15 double lancets with cusped ogee heads, panel tracery, splayed mullions, chamfered and rebated reveals with four centred arched heads and hood moulds with mask stops.

To west, C14 triple lancet with ogee heads, splayed mullion and square headed reveal and hood mould.

To west, C15 triple lancet with ogee heads, panel tracery with billeted transom, splayed mullion, chamfered and rebated reveal with Tudor arched head, hood mould and mask stops.

East end has C16 five light lancet with round heads, transom, beaded mullions, triangular head with hood mould.

Above, datestone inscribed '1632'.

South chancel Mering chapel, c.1525, three unequal bays, has chamfered plinth, moulded string course, sill and eavesbands, with single gargoyle, bosses and mask.

East end has C16 five light lancet with cusped round heads and panel tracery, beaded splayed mullion, coved and moulded reveal with four centred arch and hood mould.

South porch, C15, has rendered plinth and two flanking buttresses, single setoff.

Interior has stone benches and low pitch C15 roof with moulded ridge and flat cleft rafters.

South doorway, C13, has moulded and rebated reveal, flanking shafts with moulded capitals, and hood mould.

Nave arcades, late C13, three bays, have round piers with water holding bases and moulded capitals.

Tower arch, C13, chamfered and rebated, with hood mould and keeled responds with moulded square capitals and bases.

North aisle has east window with stained glass, 1927, by Geoffrey Webb.

Lean-to roof has C14 corbels

C15 cambered tie beams with struts.

South aisle has to east on south side, C13 chamfered piscina.

C19 lean-to roof with C15 moulded tie beams, moulded ridge and foliate bosses.

East end has moulded elliptical arch, c.1525, to Mering Chapel, with moulded responds.

Important C16 timber screen with surround with shafts.

Traceried lower panels, carved rail and pierced upper panels.

Above, overhanging gallery withcarved and moulded bressummer on plain corbels and traceried panelled front, with elaborate carved and moulded cresting.

Chancel arch, C14, chamfered and rebated, with hood mould and cove moulded band above.

Chancel, two bays, has to south two-bay arcade, c.1525.

Windows have fragments of C16 stained glass.

Principal rafter roof, C15, restored, with duplicate tie beams with struts supporting earlier cambered tie beams, one with moulding.

Two windows have scraps of C16 stained glass.

West end has to south, four centred arched doorway, and to north, C17 arched head panelled door in pier.

Fittings include font, C15, moulded octagonal base

stem, with traceried panels, octagonal bowl with remains of tracery, and late C17 two-tier panelled octagonal cover with ball finial.

Octagonal pulpit with C18 panelled stem and C19 traceried panelled top.

C19 carved oak eagle lectern.

Several re-sited C16 benches with traceried panels, shaped ends and fleur de lys or mask finials.

Remains of octagonal font bowl in porch, with masks and shields in panels, and foliate bosses.

Two C18 upholstered chairs with carved backs and stretchers.

Monuments include Mering chest tomb with chamfered base, strapwork panels, and moulded Purbeck marble top.

Brass to William Leek, 1770.

Brass, 1779.

Large shouldered alabaster war memorial panel with crucifix, 1918.

8 brasses C20.