All Saints

Late C15 W tower.

Three-light C15 window in the N aisle wall to the E of the extension and another to the W of it.

Two three-light C15 S windows, heavily restored, and a C19 Early English style window like those in the chancel to the W of the porch.

Four-stage, C15 W tower with a small, half-round stair turret.

The late C15 W door is blocked and has a four-centred head.

Heavily restored 3-light C15 W window and 2-light windows in the bell stage.

A number of medieval, moulded stones are incorporated into the E wall and aisle walls.

INTERIOR Internally there is much neo-Norman work at the E end, but the nave arcades are genuine C12 work.

Fine neo-Norman chancel arch of 1861-3, heavily carved on both sides with chevron, bobbin, chip carving and other motifs.

The chancel is dominated by the very heavily carved late Norman style decoration on the E wall.

The outer section has two bay intersecting blind arcades on detached, dark marble, shafts, the inner section is a reredos with a carved inscription.

The whole is lavishly decorated with chevron, billet, diaper work and foliage carving.

The splays and rere-arch of the E window are probably C14.

A two light C15 window with cusped lights opens from the N aisle into the organ chamber.

Late C15 tower arch of three chamfered orders, the outer two continuous, the inner on polygonal shafts with moulded capitals, closed by a C20 timber and glazed screen.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES Square, C13 font with a central shaft and four, renewed outer shafts.

Early English-style pulpit of 1861-3 with fat marble shafts with stiff leaf capitals and dogtooth in the stem and detached marble shafts around the main section.

Good neo-Norman dado and reredos of 1861-3 in the chancel.

C19 geometric floor tiles in the chancel and encaustic tiles in the nave.

Some interesting C19 glass, including a memorial window to Francis Trevelyan Egerton, son of the vicar, who died in 1885, aged 10, depicted as a choir boy.

HISTORY There was a church in Hartford at the time of Domesday Book in 1086

the approximately double-square plan of the nave of the present church (allowing for a setting out error in the S wall) suggests that the present church was built in the early C12.

The aisles were added in the late C12,

the chancel may have been lengthened in the C14 as the inner splays of the E window are of that date.

The W tower was added in the late C15.

He entirely rebuilt the chancel arch in a bold neo-Norman style, rebuilt the E wall, added the neo-Norman dado, and carried out other repairs to the wall and windows.

SOURCES RCHME Huntingdonshire , 128-9 VCH Huntingdon 2 , 171-5 Pevsner, N., Buildings of England, Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough , 259 Lambeth Palace Library, Incorporated Church Building Society papers, file 05823 REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The church of All Saints, Hartford, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Medieval parish church of the C12, with late C12 aisle, a possibly C14 chancel

C15 W tower. * Fittings of interest include C13 font and some interesting glass. * Partly rebuilt in lavish neo-Norman style in 1861-3, including the chancel arch, chancel E wall, porch and W parts of the aisles.