Description

TF 27 SE WEST ASHBY MAIN STREET
(west side)

2/144 Church of
All Saints
14.9.66

G.V. I

Parish church. Early C12, c.1200, late C14, C15, restored 1872-3
by Ewan Christian. Green sandstone rubble blocks, limestone
ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, tile
coped east gable with cross finial. West tower, nave with north
aisle and south porch, chancel. C15 west tower with 5 stage
angle buttresses, south east rectangular stair turret with 2 slit
lights and 3 string courses, moulded plinth and string course.
Tall C19 west window with pointed head, 3 pointed lights, cusped
tracery and hood mould. Moulded string course above and single,
small rectangular windows on west and south sides. Clock on
second stage, east side. Moulded string course defines bell
stage with bell openings on all 4 sides, each with a pointed
head, 2 pointed cusped lights, panel tracery with quatrefoil,
hood mould and head label stops. Moulded eaves above with large,
projecting corner gargoyles, battlements and ornate corner
pinnacles. West end of C14 north aisle with plinth and moulded
stringcourse, pointed window with 2 cusped, pointed lights,
quatrefoil and hood mould. North side of aisle with C15 doorway
to west with pointed head, continuous moulded surround, hood
mould and plank door. 3 three stage buttresses to left,
alternate with 2 rectangular C14 windows each with 3 cusped
pointed and ogee headed lights with flowing tracery and hood
mould. C19 corbelled eaves above. East end of north aisle with
rectangular, 3 light window with 3 cusped, pointed and ogee
headed lights with flowing tracery and hood mould and label
stops. Chancel with single, pointed C19 window with 3 ogee
headed lights, flowing tracery, hood mould and label stops. East
end of chancel with moulded string course running beneath Cl9
east window with 3 cusped pointed lights, 3 cusped oculi above,
hood mould and head label stops. South side of chancel
continuous with nave. 2 triangular headed windows to the right,
both with 2 cusped ogee headed lights and quatrefoil.
Rectangular late C14 window to left with 3 cusped ogee headed
lights, hood mould and label stops. Pointed early C15 window
beyond with 3 pointed and ogee headed, cusped lights, flowing
tracery and hood mould. C15 gabled porch restored in C19 with
pointed south doorway, polygonal jambs with rosettes on capitals
and abaci, chamfered outer order, hood mould and head label
stops; moulded eaves with rosette motifs and moulded parapet.
Interior early C12 doorway with semi-circular head, the outer
order rolled, chamfered imposts, chamfered jambs and plank door.
Interior tower arch of c.1200 with pointed, double chamfered head
dying into rectangular jambs. Small pointed C15 doorway inside
tower with chamfered surround and plank door. 2 painted boards
in tower recording charitable bequests. 4 bay north arcade of
c.1200 with double chamfered, pointed heads, polygonal responds
and square piers placed diagonally and chamfers with slender
shafts attached, with plain moulded capitals. C14 piscina in
south wall with cusped ogee head. C15 octagonal font with cusped
traceried panels on bowl and pedestal. C19 roofs, pulpit,
lectern, altar rail and pews. Monument of white and grey marble
to Thomas Rockcliffe, died 1783; another of white marble with
pediment to Richard Calthrop, whose head was blown off at sea off
Algiers in 1816; another of white and grey marble with seated
sheep, pelican and coat of arms, to Elizabeth Paine, died 1859;
another of white and dark grey marble with urn and draperies to
Richard Elmhurst, died 1847; another of black and white marble
with ribbons, to Elizabeth Elmhurst, died 1857; and one in grey
and white marble with palms, to Sarah Elmhurst, died 1848.

Listing NGR: TF2658172462

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526442

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Recommended Books

• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)