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All Saints

All Saints

Steeple Langford

Wiltshire

C13, C14, C15, 1873 restoration

Architectural Features

To left is buttress with offsets and C14-style 2-light window

two C14-style windows to right

corbel table to eaves with carved heads

quatrefoil over north side of chancel has one 2-light C14-style window

North aisle has shallow lean-to roof, good 3-light Perpendicular east window, blocking course with saddleback coping, north side has C14 two-light window either side of central chamfered blocked doorway with small 2-light Perpendicular window over, four buttresses with offsets, blocking course, west end of aisle has good 3-light Perpendicular window with hoodmould

Three-stage C14 west tower has 3-light west window with reticulated tracery

C16 bellstage with 2-light cusped square-headed windows with louvres

C13 tower arch with attached shafts with stiff leaf capitals and roll-moulded arch

South wall has blocked elliptical arch to former rood loft, containing C13 coffin lid, of heart burial, aumbry to right

Three-bay north aisle with C14 double chamfered arches on cylindrical piers and responds

unrestored C15 panelled roof with carved animal bosses

Chancel arch is restored C13 in similar style to tower arch

fragment of Saxon cross from Hanging Langford

Fittings: stained glass by Heaton

1920's. Jacobean polygonal pulpit with good carved panels

C12 Purbeck marble square font bowl on pier and 4 shafts with low relief carvings

brass candelabra

North aisle has fine stone altar dated JM/1576 with multifoils and ovolo-moulded plinth, some C17 pews and medieval bench ends, north blocked doorway contains reset panels with Mompesson heraldic shields, others on wall to right, said to come from chest tomb

this aisle rebuilt by Mompesson family of Bathampton House (q.v.) in C15

Three- quarter figure on north wall of Rector Joseph Collier, died 1635, cartouche on south wall to Reverend Arthur Collier, died 1732