Description

SK 35 NE PARISH OF SOUTH WINGFIELD HOLM LANE
2/98
Church of All Saints
13-2-67
II*

Anglican church. C12 with Perp tower, remodelling of aisle and nave windows in
1803, chancel refashioned in 1877. Ashlar gritstone with coped gables, leaded, tiled
and slated roofs. West tower, north and south aisles, south aisle porch, clerestory,
chancel and vestry. Three stage Perp tower with stepped diagonal buttresses
terminating at bell stage, the tower stages delineated by moulded strings. 2-light
trefoil headed bell stage windows beneath shallow hollow chamfer arches. Crenellated
parapet above moulded string and C19 crocketed pinnacles to tower corners. Narrow
slit windows to tower stair. 2-light west window with rectilinear tracery below
pointed segmental arch. Gabled south porch, with semi-circular headed doorway arch
with keyblock and with double three-panel doors. Plain mid wall band, and plaque
above doorway. Five bay south aisle rising from plain plinth, with cill band and
semi-circular heads to window with projecting keyblocks. Moulded cornice and shallow
plain parapet above. Clerestory with five semi-circular headed windows beneath an
eaves cornice, with shallow parapet above. Three bay chancel rising from two-stage
moulded plinth, with shallow diagonal buttresses to east end. 2-light side wall
windows with restored cinquefoil heads beneath deeply chamfered lintel, the two
windows to the east end coupled, with a major mullion between them. Shallow ogee
headed priests door between windows, with hoodmould with carved stops. East window
also coupled 2-light openings with major mullion, also restored, but with hoodmould
with stops. Vestry on north wall of chancel with plain pointed doorway, and semi-
circular headed window to north wall. Five bay north aisle with semi-circular
headed lights below cornice with shallow parapet. Clerestory windows match those
on south side. Interior: stepped and chamfered tower arch, pointed, and with carved
shields to the base of the arch. Five bay nave arcades, pointed arcade arches
springing from circular columns with simply moulded capitals, two to north arcade
with nail head ornament. Keeled respond to north arcade west end, the south end
having a restored arch and a respond matching the chancel archway, which has stepped
and hollow chamfered pointed arch on half octagonal responds. Romanesque drum font
to nave north end on C20 pedestal. Plain aumbry recess on chancel north wall,
south wall with ogee headed recess with trefoil sub-cusping and flanking pilasters.
Wall monument, to Immanuel Halton, d1699, with broken pediment, and William Harris,
d1631. Wall monuments to chancel east wall, to the south side, to the Revd Miles
Halton, d1792, to the north side, to Immanuel Halton, d1784.

Listing NGR: SK3832655778

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• All Saints' Church, South Wingfield at Wikipedia
• All Saints' Church, South Wingfield official website
• Wikidata Q17544959

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