Church of All Saints

A Grade I Listed Building in Nynehead, Somerset

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  Church of All Saints, Nynehead

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  All Saints: red sandstone church, mostly Perpendicular with Victorian additions for the Sanford family

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  All Saints: north transept with rose window extended as the Sanford chapel in 1869

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  All Saints: three-gabled east end; Nynehead Court in the background

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  All Saints: interior with standard Perpendicular piers of four hollows & shafts with capitals, added when south aisle was built in 1410 by John Wyke

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  All Saints: altar & reredos, 1871; communion table, marble & granite reredos with blue central panel of the Ascension

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  All Saints: vaulting from late c15 rood screen; plant trailed cornice is a replacement

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  All Saints: early Perpendicular font, heavily panelled on sides & stem

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  All Saints: heraldic glass from 1638 to 1869 in Sanford Chapel

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  All Saints: mid c15 sculpture of Madonna & Child attributed to Andrea; brought in by Rev'd John Sanford, d.1855

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  All Saints: sculpture of angel attributed to Aristodemo Costoli, 1840

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  All Saints: memorial to Richard Wyke, d.1590; arched plaque recording seventeen children

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  All Saints: monument to Elizabeth Clarke (nee Lottisham), d.1667, erected c.1670 by her husband Edward Clarke of Chipley, d.1679

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  All Saints: Edward Clarke of Chipley, d.1679, in black with a long flowing cloak

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  All Saints: Elizabeth Clarke (nee Lottisham), heiress of Nynehead, d.1667

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  All Saints: inscription from the memorial to Elizabeth Clarke (nee Lottisham), d.1667

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  All Saints: arms from the memorial to Elizabeth Clarke (nee Lottisham), d.1667

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  All Saints: memorial to John Locke, d.1704, philosopher & friend of Edward Clarke; no name or date

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  All Saints: memorial to Richard Wyatt, d,1693, & wife Alice Thurston, d.1732

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  All Saints: memorial to John Sanford, d.1711; Ionic columns & scroll pediment

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  All Saints: memorial to Edward Sanford, d.1718; long Baroque cartouche with weeping cherub head

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  All Saints: memorial to Gustavus Venner, d.1717; alabaster frame with scrolls & skull

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  All Saints: memorial to William Sanford of Nynehead, d.1770, & wife Ann Chichester of Youlston, d.1777

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  All Saints: memorial to John Sanford of Nynehead, d.1779, & wife Jane Anstruther, d.1797

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  All Saints: memorial to William Ayshford Sanford, d.1833; brother of Rev'd John Sanford who erected several of the later Sanford memorials

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  All Saints: memorial to Mary Sanford (nee Marshall of Breague) d.1855, wife of William Ayshford Sanford, d.1833

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  All Saints: memorial to Caroline Anne Sanford (nee Stanhope), d.1853, second wife of Edward Ayshford Sanford

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  All Saints: memorial slab to Martin Sanford of Nynehead, d.1643, & wife Susannah (Sydenham of Combe), d.1661

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  All Saints: memorial slab to Henry Sanford of Nynehead, d.1644, & wife Mary (Ayshford), d.1662

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  All Saints: memorial slab to Eleanor Pike, d.1722; servant to Edward Clarke

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  All Saints: memorial slab to Rev'd John Sanford, d.1855, & wife Eliza Georgina, d.1857

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  All Saints: memorial to Eliza Georgina, d.1857 wife of Rev'd John Sanford, d.1855