Description

IRBY IN THE MARSH WAINFLEET ROAD TF 46 SE (north side) 4/56 Church of All Saints 3.2.67

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Parish church. Mid C13, C15, remodelled 1770, restored 1886, C20. Greenstone and limestone rubble, limestone ashlar, red brick. Slate roofs with stone coped gables and eastern cross finial. West tower, nave and chancel in one, north vestry. Medieval greenstone tower almost completely remodelled in red brick in 1770, of 2 battered stages, with 4 stage angle buttresses. Chamfered plinth. Semi-circular west doorway with moulded imposts and keystone and plank door. Rectangular opening above, now blocked. Rectangular bell openings in 3 sides with louvred openings. Ashlar coped parapet and stone corner pinnacles. North side with 2 pointed arcade openings blocked with brick and 2 C18 semi-circular headed windows inserted, with ashlar architraves, imposts and keystones. C19 lean-to north vestry with single cusped lancet to east. North side of chancel with plinth and C19 segmental headed window with 3 cusped, ogee headed lights, panel tracery and hood mould. East end with 2 stage diagonal buttresses and a similar, but larger window with hood mould. South side with 2 more, similar windows and re-used mid C13 doorway with pointed head, continuous chamfered surround and plank door. Nave with alternating bands of greenstone and brick, and plinth. 2 C18 semi-circular headed windows with ashlar architraves, imposts and keystones. C13 pointed interior tower arch with C18 chamfered arch inserted and resting on chamfered rectangular jambs. C20 west screen. North arcade blocked, with pointed double chamfered arches and polygonal moulded capitals partially exposed. Plain pointed C19 chancel arch. North vestry arch with pointed head and bowtell moulded surround. Early C15 cinquefoil piscina in east wall. Early C15 small plain octagonal font.

Listing NGR: TF4684663758

External Links

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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