Description

LEZIATE ASHWICKEN
TF 61 NE
Church Lane
5/43 Church of All Saints
15-8-60
II*
Parish church C13 and later. Flint, carstone and some Sandringham sandstone,
stone dressings, renewed roof of pantiles, oversailing brick cornice. West
tower, nave, chancel and south porch. Tower: pyramidal tiled roof, no
parapet; 2 massive diagonal brick buttresses, C16, with diaper patterning;
C13 west window of cusped Y tracery having carstone above but below bell
stage; bell stage set back with single lancet to each face, that to east
blocked. South porch rebuilt C19, south face of flint, returns mainly
carstone, tile roof; diagonal buttresses; plain chamfered arch with niche
above; returns each with 2 C15 cusp headed lights under a square hood. Plain
south doorway with pointed segmental arch under a hood mould. South nave:
with 2 3-light windows having panel tracery and a 4-centred arch, grille
leaded panes, brick panels below lights, 2 brick buttresses. North nave:
5 stepped brick buttresses, chamfered brick cap to plinth, blocked north
doorway of 4-centred arch with hood mould and brick dressings, 3 C19 2-light
windows with panel tracery within blocked Tudor arches having brick voussoirs.
East of nave with blocked opening. Chancel rebuilt C19 in varied stone rubble
including reused limestone, diagonal buttresses, cusped single lights, 2 to
south, 1 to north, C19 east window of 3-lights with panel tracery. C14
priest's door to south with hood mould. C19 vestry to north incorporates
part of lava grindstone. Interior: plain pointed tower arch with thick flat
reveals; rest of interior wholly of C19 with no features of special interest.

Listing NGR: TF6983718841

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554637

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House