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Church of All Saints

A Grade I Listed Building in Horseheath, Cambridgeshire

  • All Saints, Horseheath

  • All Saints: church mostly dating from 1330s in lands held by Audley & Alington families

  • All Saints: Decorated c14 tower, c15 south porch & large six light windows; restored 1875

  • All Saints: c14 nave remodelled & heightened c15 & c16

  • All Saints: c14 nave looking towards c15 rood screen & Decorated chancel

  • All Saints: incomplete two tier monument to Giles Alington, d.1586, with his father another Giles, d.1522 (below)

  • All Saints: shield from the monument to the two Giles Alingtons, 1522 & 1586

  • All Saints: fragments from the Alington monument, 1586

  • All Saints: Giles Alington, d.1522

  • All Saints: Giles Alington, d.1586

  • All Saints: monument to Giles Alington, d.1638, & wife Dorothy (Cecil), d.1613

  • All Saints: six kneeling children from the monument to Giles Alington & Dorothy (Cecil), 1613

  • All Saints: shields & Alington crest of a talbot passant from the monument to Giles Alington & wife Dorothy (Cecil), d.1613

  • All Saints: Giles Alington of Horseheath, d.1638

  • All Saints: Dorothy (Cecil) d.1613, wife of Giles Alington of Horseheath, daughter of Thomas Cecil, first Earl of Exeter

  • All Saints: inscription from the memorial to Giles Alington & Dorothy (Cecil), 1613

  • All Saints: William de Audeley, 1365

  • All Saints: brass inscription to Mary Alington (nee Chenies of Fenn Ditton), 1473

  • All Saints: headless brass to Robert Alington, d.1552

  • All Saints: shield from the brass of Robert Alington, d.1552

  • All Saints: inscription of Robert Alington, d.1552, from the foot of his father's monument

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Entry Name: Church of All Saints

Listing Date: 22 November 1967

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1127944

English Heritage Legacy ID: 51287

ID on this website: 101127944

Location: All Saints' Church, Horseheath, South Cambridgeshire, CB21

County: Cambridgeshire

District: South Cambridgeshire

Civil Parish: Horseheath

Traditional County: Cambridgeshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Horseheath All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Ely

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