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All Saints

All Saints

Laughton CP

Lincolnshire

C12, C13, C14, C15, C16, with 1894 restoration and chancel rebuilding of 1894 by Bodley and Garner.

Architectural Features

The C14 3 stage tower has a plinth, 2 moulded string courses and embattled parapet with angle and mid wall pinnacles with grotesque water chutes beneath

To 1st floor is a C16 3 light window with concave moulded reveal and hood mould.

The north aisle has a C15 3 light window flanked by single 2 light windows with ogee heads and flat hood moulds over.

In the north wall of the chancel is a 3 light C13 geometric window moved from the east end in the restoration.

The C15 east window of the south aisle has 3 lights with trefoil heads and 2 tiers of paired mouchettes with flat hood mould and human head stops.

The inner doorway is in a restored late C13 opening with angle shafts,floriate capitals, circular abaci and roll moulding to head.

the late C12 north arcade of 4 bays with the westernmost bay a nearly contemporary addition.

The west respond is in the form of a bracket with 3 scrolled corbels, The C13 south arcade of 4 bays has octagonal piers and capitals with 2 chamfered orders.

The C14 tower arch is of 2 chamfered orders dying into its reveals.

In the base of the tower is a C14 panelled door to the stairs.

In the south aisle is a C13 half engaged pillar piscina with octagonal head and base and pointed recess.

At the east end is a carved stone reredos with a painted panelled triptych by G. Jackson of 1903.

The stained glass is by Burlison and Grylls and was not completed until 1926.

Monuments

in the south aisle is a roundel containing a recut female head dating to c.1300,

a C14 full length brass to a member of the D'Alison family showing the deceased in plate armour, feet on a lion, beneath an ogee canopy.

A reset brass from c. 1405 of one of the D'Alison family on top of a tomb to William D' Alison (d. 1546) and George D'Alison d.1549 his son.

The brass was reset in c.1549 above the tomb chest of William and George D'Alison.

A reset brass from c. 1405 of one of the D'Alison family on top of a tomb to William D' Alison (d. 1546) and George D'Alison d.1549 his son.

© Julian P Guffogg