Description

TL 06 NE TILBROOK CHURCH LANE
(NORTH SIDE)

4/1 CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
14.5.59

I

Parish church mainly of C13 and C14 with part of north arcade dating from late C12.
C14 west tower, nave, chancel, vestry and south porch. C13 north aisle and north
chapel. The church is noteworthy for the C12 north arcade and the woodwork in the
roof of the north aisle and the screen between the chancel and nave. Limestone
rubble and some dressed stone. Some ironstone to buttresses and parapets. C14 west
tower. Embattled parapet and splayed plinth. Main cornice with beast, bird and head
masks and grotesque gargoyles at angles. Exterior of 5 stages with string courses
between stages and newel staircase at south-east angle. Four stage angle buttres-
sing. C14 doorway, west window and openings to bell chamber. Broach spire of
limestone ashlar. Two tiers of gabled spire lights. C14 nave. Embattled parapet
with moulded main cornice. South wall has 2 C14 restored windows of 3 trefoil lights
and the north wall has a clerestorey with 3 C14 windows. C14 south porch, gabled
with moulded coping. Outer and inner arches are similar. Two moulded orders in
2-centred head. In the gable end, there is a reset C12 carved stone of a man and a
beast (perhaps St Anthony and the Hog). Interior of porch has fragments of sculpture
in relief of a bishop on a colonette. C14 chancel with C19 roof of 3 bays. Two
windows of 2 cinquefoil lights in south wall. The one to the west has a low side.
Restored C15 east window. Interior. North arcade of 3 full and 2 part bays. The
2 bays and one part bay to the west survive from late C12 church. Two-centred arches
of one chamfered order carried on cylindrical columns with moulded bases, scalloped
capitals and square abacii. The bays to the east are of late C13 and of 2 chamfered
orders to 2-centred arches on cylindrical columns with alternate octagonal and round
capitals with nail head ornament. Chancel. Late C13 2-centred arch of 2 chamfered
orders between chancel and north chapel. One squint opening between north chapel and
chancel, and a square opening in north wall of chancel, between'vestry and chancel,
which may have been a confessional. North aisle. Fine C15 roof of 5 bays. Principal
rafters with bracing and jackposts carried on carved corbels. Intermediate principals
with figures of angels carved to soffits. Main beam moulded and with bosses at
inter-sections. C14 angle piscina in south wall of chancel. Trefoil head in pointed
arch on 2 sides and common octagonal shaft at angle. C14 stoup in south wall of
chancel. Moulded jambs and 2-centred head. Fine late C15 or early C16 screen
between chancel and nave. Ribbed coving carried on screen of 2 bays and larger
central opening. Each bay with 3 lights. Below the dado, the closed panels are
painted with figures of saints. Some original paint is still visible. Fragments of
a C14 screen from Tilbrook Church is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
RCHM (Hunts), p 272 mon (I). VCH (Beds).
Norris Museum, St Ives. Inskip Ladds Records.

Listing NGR: TL0806069225

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527894

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)