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All Saints

All Saints

Datchworth

Hertfordshire

Late C12 or early C13 origins

Architectural Features

Late C13 N aisle added

Late C14 tower added

Inner neo-Norman entrance arch with shafted jambs, double round arch with outer chevron moulding, impost blocks

N aisle is exposed flint and stone, knapped flint to E. Towards E end a 2 cinqueroiled light C15 window, deep embrasure, square hood

Lean-to organ bay to W. Interior: late C13 4 bay arcade from nave to N aisle has 3 octagonal piers with moulded bases and capitals, double hollow chamfered order in 2 centred arches

Tall late C14 3 centred tower arch, triple moulded, semi-octagonal responds to inner order with caps and bases

Nave roof: C15 arch braced collar beam trusses, moulded braces and double purlins, double row of curved windbraces

C15 font, octagonal. stem and bowl, trefoiled panelled sides, embattled edges, broach stops at foot

Large oak chest, probably C17, with 3 locks

In nave S wall a recess with a restored 2 centred arched head with a label inside which is a C14 coffin slab with a raised floriated cross

Mary, Watton at Stone C.P. (q.v.). Elsewhere late C19 glass