Description

SK 44 SE; 3/43

PARISH OF ILKESTON,
LADYWOOD ROAD, KIRK HALLAM (North Side)

Church of All Saints

26.9.63

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Parish church. C14, C15, restoration C19. Coursed squared
gritstone with gritstone dressings. Welsh-slate roofs with
stone-coped gables. Moulded coped parapets to nave. West
tower, nave and chancel. Moulded plinth, except on the north
side of the nave.

The west tower has a west window of two
cusped arched lights under a square head, set in a chamfered
surround. The south side has a lower bell opening of 2-lights
in a chamfered square headed surround. Second bell opening
above has two cusped arched lights under a square head and set
in a chamfered surround. Similar bell openings on the other
three sides. Moulded string course above and battlemented
parapet. South side of nave of three bays, with diagonal
buttresses and one intermediate buttress. Steeply gabled C19
south porch has a heavy moulded arch on stumpy half columns. To
the left is a 2-light C14 window in a stepped and wave moulded
surround with square head and C19 tracery. Two similar windows
to the right. The chancel has two more similar windows flanking
a single chamfered priests doorway. Much rebuilt in the C19.
Diagonal buttresses at the east end of the chancel. Three-light
east window with an almost triangular head and wave moulded
surround. Tracery of three trefoiled lancets and three
trefoils. The north wall of the chancel has no windows. The
north wall of the nave has no buttresses and has two windows
similar to those on the south side, but entirely C19 and with
roll moulded surrounds. Set into the walls of the south porch
are two C12 beakheads. Steeply pointed south doorway with
continuous wave moulding. C19 plank door with iron strap
hinges.

Tower arch of two moulded orders, the inner order dying
into the imposts. C19 double chamfered chancel arch with
hoodmould on both sides with foliage stops. C19 boarded chancel
roof with cusping and quatrefoil frieze. Nave roof has tie
beams and arched trusses on corbels. C12 circular font with
intersecting arcading, set on a C19 octagonal base. Dec
piscina and triple sedilia with cusped tracery. C19 stone
reredos in the form of a gothic arcade. Painted texts either
side of the east window, placed above corbels.

Monuments:
Three tablets on the north wall of the chancel, to Valentine
Stead + 1765, Ann Stead + 1810, Francis Newdigate + 1762. C19
rood screen, Dec style, with foliage frieze and cresting.

Stained glass: C19 glass in the three chancel windows. A south
nave window of 1910, and a north nave window of 1909, the latter
an 'arts and crafts' design of 1910 by Bernard Sleigh of
Birmingham - one of very few windows by Sleigh who was better
known as a wood engraver. Painted hatchment above the chancel
arch.

Listing NGR: SK4585740552

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of All Saints at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17525644

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