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All Saints

All Saints

Frieston

Lincolnshire

C11 rubble stair turret attached to west wall of earlier tower.

Architectural Features

Tower of 4 stages, the lower 3 of C11 rubble with quoins

2 string courses, the upper C15 ashlar with single string- course.

Second stage has small C11 round headed light and clock.

4 C15 bell openings each of 2 pointed windows divided by mullion and transom under single broad basket arch with grotesque head label stops.

Moulded eaves with small sculptural decorations and large projecting gargoyles.

West front of north aisle has late C12 round headed light set in rubble with stringcourse below.

C15 clerestorey of 4 windows, each of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoil under flattened triangular head with hood mould.

Moulded eaves with projecting gargoyles with battlements and ornate pinnacles above.

Chancel east end has low moulded plinth, irregular ashlar quoins and large C15 window of 5 cusped round headed lights surmounted by 8 small lights under 4-cusped head with hoodmould.

Plinth continues round south side of choir with 2 early C14 windows with intersecting tracery pointed heads, hoodmoulds and head label stops.

West of it, at a lower level than the other windows is a pointed window with intersecting tracery restored in C19, with hoodmould and early C14 caryatid figure as label stop to east, and grotesque head to west.

East end of south aisle has high C15 stringcourse and a lancet with hoodmould.

South side of aisle has 2 C15 rectangular windows each of 3 ogee cusped lights with mouchettes above.

Shallow segmental relieving arches above the windows and rectangular C15 window set between them, with 2 pointed lights, hoodmould and label stop heads.

West side has re-set C11 window.

Early C13 south door restored in C19, of 2 columnar jambs with plain moulded capitals, pointed arch with filleted roll mouldings.

To west of porch, set between 2 stringcourses is a C12 round headed light with hoodmould.

C15 west window of 2 lights with ogee heads and continuous mullions restored in C19.C15 clerestorey with 4 windows each of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoils under flattenedtriangular head with hoodmould.

High above is an C11 tall, narrow triangular headed blocked opening.

2 bay nave with early C13 arcade of octagonal piers and polygonal responds supporting plain chamfered pointed arched with hoodmoulds and heads in central spandrels.

C15 timber ceiling with ornate bosses.

C15 south aisle roof with curved braces, C20 south aisle roof.

Early C13 chancel arch with semi-circular responds with polygonal capitals and chamfered pointed arch.

Chancel 2 steps higher than nave with early C13, 2 bay north arcade with semi-circular responds, polygonal capitals and double chamfered pointed arches.

C15 roof with crenellations on tie beams.

C19 pews, pulpit and stone font Black and white marble monument on north wall of nave to Arabella Ashton died 1792.

On south wall of nave, an ornate grey and black marble monument to John Marris, died 1785.

2 large monuments in north arcade, both in white and grey marble with sarcophagus and obelisk, to Edward Payne, died 1710 and Thomas Payne, died 1742.