Description

SE31NE CROFTON HIGH STREET
(north side, off)
3/23 Church of All Saints

22.11.66
GV II*

Church. Crossing tower c1300 otherwise c1430 Perpendicular for Richard Fleming,
Bishop of Lincoln (a native of Crofton), restored c1875 by Leake and Denison
(Normanton). Cruciform aisless church. Nave, south porch, north and south
transepts, crossing tower, chancel. Plinth and continuous band at low level with
diagonal buttresses at all outer corners. 4-bay nave articulated by offset
buttresses, surmounted by grotesque gargoyles: 2-light windows with cusped lights
and panel tracery (some renewed), hoodmoulds with carved face stops. C15 gabled
porch with groined vault. Inner doorway 2-centred arched of 2 orders with broach
stops. Similar north doorway (blocked). 1 x 1 bay transepts and 2-bay chancel
all have 2-light windows. All gables (at compass points) are coped with cross
finials; continuous parapet with Gothic roll-moulded coping. Set in angle between
nave and south transept semicircular projection with low square-headed doorway
leading to tower which has to each face a single cusped light at ridge level and
2-light belfry window above with clock face to south. Embattled parapet with
corner pinnacles c1875

Interior: roof of C19 arch-braced trusses on stone corbels. Tower carried on four
double-chamfered 2-centred arches of 2 orders. 2-centred arched doorway formerly
leading to rood loft. C15 piscina in sanctuary has trefoil carved head in 2-centred
arched recess. Monuments: the finest in north transept erected to Mary Meyer c1739
by Paul Meyer; another in chancel, large marble monument to Sir Henry Wright Wilson
of Crofton Hall c1836. Furnishings: C15 octagonal font has shields set in quatrefoils
to each face. C19 pews. Two funeral hatchments. Organ set in south transept c1908.
Remains of 2 Saxon crosses.

A fine church prominently sited on top of a hill although there is a tradition that
the church was moved from a site at the bottom of the hill around 1430 by Richard
Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln.

Listing NGR: SE3778818126

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550187

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)