Description

THE BROADWAY 1. 5590 Laleham Church of All Saints TQ 0568 11/24 11.8.52 GV 2. The Norman church largely re-modelled in C17 and more recently. The church consists of a west tower, 3 bay nave, chancel and modern south porch. The tower is red brick, Flemish bond, about 1780, with corner piers (channelled rustication and moulded stone caps one brick dated BE 1732); arched belfry windows, oculi to ringing chamber; clock to west above a Venetian window (repaired 1932); pointed doorway below. The nave walls are restored: brick with stone dressings to Decorated style windows; south-west corner has English bond buttress; gable end of nave English bond too. Chancel south wall restored and a stepped east window inserted. North wall has circa 1600 brickwork with black diapers. Tudor arch doorway and flat-headed 3-light brick mullion windows (with arched heads). Interior: interesting: 3 bay pointed arcade, mid-C12 on scallop capitals, squat polished stone piers; plaster removed from 2 arches to reveal brick work below, centre one has billet hood mould; arcade which has been shortened in C16 divides nave and north aisle and is built into south wall. C16 brick chancel arch, also pointed. Roofs repaired, aisle appears to have a mediaeval tie-beam roof with windbraces and arch-braced collars. South door has key stones of reused C12 sculptured material. The chancel and north chapel separated by slender oak columns. A number of memorials particularly in south wall of chancel (George Parrott, died 1780 by William Tyler; Henrietta Hertwell, died 1818, by Chantry; and some C19 Bingham tablets. North aisle wall has a memorial tablet to Thomas Arnold (his son Matthew is buried in the churchyard) C19 font in Norman style). Further Bingham vault in churchyard. Also a number of food headstones, 4 chest tombs close to north aisle wall and a double body-tomb John and Sarah Chandler, died 1821 and 1802).

Listing NGR: TQ0512868877

External Links

• Church of All Saints official website
• Wikidata Q17527665

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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