Description

SP 61 NE WOTTON UNDERWOOD

3/179 Church of All Saints

21.12.67

- II*

Parish church. Originally C14 with remains of C12 W. doorway; restored and S. aisle rebuilt 1867 by G.E. Street for Duke of Buckingham. C19 W. tower. Coursed rubble stone, lead roofs. Off-set buttresses,moulded parapets to nave and chancel. W. tower of 2 stages with battlemented parapet, octagonal lead spire, wide lancet openings and W. door. Nave has restored C14-C15 2-light traceried windows, 3 to N. and one to S. N, door with moulded depressed arch and brick niche to right. Restored carved head gargoyles. S. aisle is of dressed stone with sill course, dripmould, and 3-light traceried windows. Chancel has cusped lancets to N. and S. and a C19 3-light E. window with reticulated tracery. Small C19 N. vestry. Interior: nave has door to tower with C12 incised patterning to lintel. Nave roof is dated 1870 and has carved angel corbels. S. arcade has 3 bays of arches on quatrefoil piers, all renewed C19, and 2 W. bays with elaborate C19 tracery forming screen to Grenville chapel. 2 remaining bays of S. aisle are divided by arch and have dado of blind tracery panels with inscriptions. Restored C15 chancel arch is double hollow chamfered on semi-octagonal piers. Chancel also has moulded sill course, cinquefoil piscina and C19 arches to aisle and vestry. Fittings: circular font on banded stem, possibly medieval but much reworked; medieval chest; fine early C18 wrought iron screen to chapel has Corinthian capitals and crest with foliage scrolls and initials of Richard Grenville. Other fittings C19. C19 armorial glass to chapel. Monuments: C19 ogee recess at W. end of chapel contains tomb chest with carved stone effigy of Agnes de Wightham, d.1386 but carved C16; C16 brasses to Edward Greneveile, wife and child; stone wall tablets to members of Grenville family; large tomb chest along S. wall with double row of oval brass inscription tablets to same family; more oval tablets on floor. RCHM I p.326-7

Listing NGR: SP6883715942

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