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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535558

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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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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)