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All Saints

All Saints

Asfordby

Leicestershire

C14 with older origins.

Architectural Features

C15 clerestory and tower.

Detail of the 15th century tower parapet with panelled frieze and gargoyles.

Battlemented parapet with crocketed pinnacles to angles, gargoyles and frieze below with cusped lozenges alternating with shields in quatrefoils.

Detail of the 15th century tower parapet with panelled frieze and gargoyles.

© Alan Murray-Rust

Transept and S transept aisle have clasping butresses to angles, polygonal above string course, and topped with stepped pinnacles bearing foliated crosses facing E. Chancel has plain stone-coped parapet and offset buttresses to angles and between bays to S. Interior: Chancel has reredos panelling incorporating Jacobean carved panels, piscina with cusped head and quatrefoil drain, 3-seat sedilia with many-moulded openings with ogee-arched heads and aumbry above - possible Easter Sepulchre - with sunk quadrant moulding to aumbry and 2 ogee arches to head of recess below.

Perpendicular roof to nave with angels to principals on carved stone corbels holding musical instruments.

C15 Rood screen with broad 1- light divisions, ogee arches and tracery.

C15 bench end of which half survives and retains original blue and red coloured decoration.

3 portions of Saxon cross with scrollwork, a dragon on one stone a figure giving blessing on another.

Stained-glass windows to chancel S transept and S aisle.

Monuments: Slate wall monument in vestry to Mary Galloway d.1820 signed by Hull and Pollard.

3 slate wall monuments in S transept with gilded incised circular inscription panels, late C18 that to left signed JS/Frisby, middle one signed Burton and that to right W Cox.