Description

TL 1233 SHILLINGTON & CHURCH STREET(North Side) STONDON 19/80 23.1.61 Church of All Saints

GV I

Parish Church. Predominantly C14, with C18 tower,and C19 tracery to many windows. Coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Parts of tower and other patches of repair in red brick. Chancel, N and S chapels, nave, N and S aisles,S porch, W tower. Externally no distinction between chancel and nave clerestories or between chapels and aisles. Total clerestory has 6 windows per side, all of 2-lights with pointed heads, 3 lighting nave, 3 lighting chancel. Combined aisles and chapels have to each side 3 3-light windows and one 2-light window, the tracery varying on each side but matched by that on opposite side of church. Chancel: 3-bay arcades each side, E bay of both blocked to springing level. E end of chancel has vaulted crypt necessitated by sloping site. 4-light pointed arched E window is C15 insertion within larger original winnow opening. Plain parapet above has carvings of an ass and a tun, the rebus of Matthew Asscheton (see below). Flanking window are 2 embattled rectangular turrets containing stairs to roofs. Pointed chancel arch. N. and S Chapels: each of 3 bays. Each has 3-light E window, S one with cambered head, N one with pointed head. N chapel has small N door to E bay. S chapel has single light to E bay and small pointed S door to W bay. Pointed chapel arches. Nave: 4-bay arcades to both sides. N and S aisles: each has 2 windows. Each has C14 pointed arched doorway in W bay, the S one enclosed within C19 gabled porch. This replaced original 2-storeyed porch, of which ogee-headed staircase doorway is retained of door. At W end of S aisle is blocked C15 4-centred doorway. W tower: rebuilt 1750 after collapse of original one earlier in century. Retains original tower arch. 3 stages, upper of 2 of brick. Diagonal buttresses to W angles. Bell-stage has round-headed louvred window to each side. 2-light W window with C19 Gothic tracery to ground stage. Plain parapets throughout building. Interior: heavily restored octagonal font. C19 roofs, although re-using some original timbers. Good screens to chapel and chancel arches and enclosing chancel, mostly C15 with some C19 panels. Some medieval pewing, including some N aisle ones with re-used screen panels. N chapel has fine brass to Matthew Asscheton, Rector of Shillington (d,1400)and another C15 one to a priest. Floor slab to James Hanscombe, d.1660. Wall tablet to John Briscoe (d.1766) and Longueville family, of white and gray marble, with putti to apron.

Listing NGR: TL1237733941

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