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BRANTINGHAM DALE ROAD
SE 93 SW
(east side)
2/9 Church of All Saints
7.2.68
- II*
Church. C12 origins, largely rebuilt 1872 by G E Street using old
materials. Coursed rubble, ashlar dressings, pantiled roofs. 2-stage west
tower, 3-bay nave with south porch and north and south transepts, 2-bay
chancel. West tower: low chamfered plinth. Ogee-headed lancet beneath
string course to bell stage, 2-light pointed belfry opening with cusped
tracery. String course with gargoyles beneath crenellated parapet with
crocketed corner finials. Two-light pointed west window with curvilinear
tracery under a hoodmould. Polygonal stair turret lit by lancets under a
corbelled hipped roof to south-east angle. Nave: 3-light pointed window with
Perpendicular tracery under a hoodmould with face stops. Late C12 round-
headed south door of 2 orders: the inner roll-moulded on moulded imposts and
attached shafts with stiff-leaf capitals, the outer hollow-chamfered on
hollow-chamfered jambs under a hoodmould with face stops. South porch:
pointed opening of 3 moulded arches under a hoodmould. Crenellated parapet.
Nave north elevation: to west, a 2-light square-headed window under a
hoodmould, to east, a 3-light pointed window with Perpendicular tracery
under a hoodmould with face stops. South transept: 2-light pointed south
window with Perpendicular tracery. Similar north window to north transept.
Crenellated parapet to nave. Chancel: central round-headed priest's door
with continuous roll-moulding; to the left a 2-light pointed window with
Geometrical tracery, to the right a lancet with inner trefoil light. 3-
light pointed east window with plate tracery under a hoodmould with monarch
stops. North vestry: north window of 3 lights under a segmental head and
hoodmould with face stops, and projection in re-entrant angle with chancel
containing pointed door with a continuous shallow moulding under a
hoodmould. Side-wall stacks rising to octagonal flue with crenellated cap
to east wall of vestry. Raised coped gables throughout the church: that to
the chancel has a cross finial. Interior: double-chamfered pointed tower
arch dying into responds. Late C12 pointed double-chamfered arches on
quirk-and-hollow-chamfered imposts to north and south transepts. Early C13
goblet-shaped font with 4 supporting colonnettes with nailhead. In south
transept east wall is a memorial brass set within a rectangular moulded
stone panel: inscription, under a coat of arms, to Antony Smethley, Lord of
Brantingham, 1578.

Listing NGR: SE9437830085