Description

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5259 HORSESHOE LANE
Leavesden

Church of All Saints
TL 10 SW 2/2

II

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1853. Sir G G Scott. Flint and stone decorated Gothic church. Plain tile roofs
with fish-scale bands. Nave, chancel, lean-to aisle, west tower and south porch.
Tower rises from roof, plain, square with coped parapet at ridge level to nave,
narrow shingled bell-stage with gabled bell-openings rising into base of slim
broach spire, also shingled. Two-light windows with trefoil and quatrefoil heads,
larger and more elaborate to chancel, with hood moulds. Angle buttresses with stone
set-offs. Gabled timber south-west porch, tiled, with cusped bargeboards. Above,
2 carved stone roundels, angels carrying scrolls. Two heavy buttresses to west end
with long 2-light window between. Within, 3 bay nave, 2 bay chancel. Round columns
to south arcade. Moulded tower and chancel arches on carved corbels. Open timber
roofs, scissor trussed in chancel, arch-braced collar-truss with crown-post and upper
scissor rafters to nave. Stone pulpit and font circa 1853. Painted wood retable,
C14 Italian style, later C19. Chancel and south aisle glass circa 1853-60, all by
Wailes. Patterned glass west window also circa 1853.

Listing NGR: TL1148200866

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