Description

BARMSTON SANDS LANE TA 15 NE (south side, off) 8/3 Church of All Saints 30.6.66 I

Church. C12 and C15 with later additions and alterations. Rubble with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-stage south-west tower, 3-bay nave with 2-bay south aisle and south porch, 2-bay chancel. Tower: quoins, 2- light pointed Perpendicular window to west under cavetto-moulded hood with label stops. Moulded first stage band. Perpendicular 2-light bell- openings, band, pierced battlements. Entrance to south porch has 2 orders of cavetto moulding under cavetto-moulded hood. Remains of cross at apex. Within, a studded board door within Caenarvon arch. South aisle has blocked round-arched opening under cavetto-moulded hood with label stops. 3-light pointed window with Perpendicular tracery to head within double-chamfered surround. Similar window to east end of aisle. Nave. West end has 3- light, pointed Perpendicular window within double-chamfered surround under cavetto-moulded hood with label stops. North side has entrance with ogee- arched, cavetto-moulded surround under cavetto-moulded hood with label stops, now blocked. 3-light pointed Perpendicular window in double-hollow- chamfered surround. Cornice. Low moulded parapet. Chancel. South side has C19 pointed priest's entrance with 4-panel door, quoined jambs and cavetto-moulded hood with label stops, small inserted single-light window to left. Otherwise 3-light straight-headed Perpendicular window in double- hollow-chamfered surround, with hollow-chamfered hood with label stops. To east end a 3-light pointed Perpendicular window with recut mullions and partly recut double-hollow-chamfered surround beneath hollow-chamfered hoodmould with label stops. Cross at apex. Interior. Pointed double- hollow-chamfered tower arch. 2-bay south arcade has double-hollow-chamfered round arches on square piers with hollow-chamfered diagonals and moulded capitals. Similar chancel arch. Norman tub font with lozenge decoration. C19 sedilia and piscina. Monuments: probably late C17 wall monument in early C18 surround to Dorothea Boynton, d 1680, and Henry Boynton, d 1719. Alabaster knight on tomb-chest against which stand six angels each holding a shield, probably to William Moneaux of Barmston d 1446. To porch a hogback and remains of pre-Viking age cross. Fragments of medieval glass in south aisle, otherwise late C19 and C20. To exterior of south side of chancel are 2 probably early C18 wall tablets, one to member of Dumbleton family, d 1711. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding , 1978, pp 166-7.

Listing NGR: TA1564958853

External Links

• Wikidata Q17533885

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)