All Saints

C14-C15 West Tower.

West Tower C14-C15.

West window of Ketton limestone, restored in C14-C15 style with vertical tracery.

Nave of c.1200 origin with repairs of 1370.

C13 style fenestration but a c.1200 north doorway reinstated.

Two centred arch of two chamfered orders, the outer order is on columns with one capital carved with volutes and the other with foliate ornament.

Inserted in the north wall of the tower is a late C17 or early C18 headstone.

Inside: C14-C15 tower arch.

South arcade of c.1200.

The chancel arch, C12, is round headed and on the west side has a roll moulding on angle shafts with capitals, one carved with volutes and an abacus with chamfered lower edge.

Inserted south of the chancel arch is a C13 trefoil arch of clunch roll moulded, probably used a squint opening from a south chapel to the chancel.

Another C13 opening, blind, on North side has been partly removed by the C19 north wall of the nave.

North wall of chancel has monument to John Layer the antiquarian.

The pulpit is early C17 of oak on modern base

there are some C15-C16 enriched poppy head finials, reset on modern bench ends.

The font, C13 has an octagonal bowl with volutes at the corner on central stem and four supports at the corners.

TL3947 : All Saints, Shepreth, Cambridgeshire - Font

© John Salmon