History in Structure

Church of All Saints

A Grade I Listed Building in Wing, Buckinghamshire

  • All Saints: Saxon church with c9 origins; c10 polygonal apse with earlier crypt below

  • All Saints: view from the south showing late medieval porch & windows; Decorated aisle & Perpendicular clerestory

  • All Saints: c15 Perpendicular west tower

  • All Saints: nave looking towards Saxon chancel arch & two-light window; thick arches in aisles

  • All Saints: c15 tie-beam nave roof

  • All Saints: former Lady Chapel with monument to Robert Dormer d.1552; blocked Saxon doorway beneath Perpendicular window

  • All Saints: classical monument with Corinthian columns to Robert Dormer, d.1552 & members of his family; erected c.1570 in French Renaissance style

  • All Saints: inscription from the monument to Robert Dormer, 1552, with reference to his marriage to Jane Newdigate

  • All Saints: set within her father-in-law's monument, brass inscription to Mary Sydney, d.1541, first wife of William Dormer, d.1575

  • All Saints: shield from the tomb of Robert Dormer, 1552; Dormer & Newdigate

  • All Saints: classical monument to William Dormer, d.1575, erected by his second wife Dorothy (Catesby) in 1590

  • All Saints: William Dormer d.1575 & second wife Dorothy (Catesby) from his monument, erected 1590

  • All Saints: Dorothy Catesby of Whiston, d.1613; second wife of William Dormer, from her husband's monument, erected 1590

  • All Saints: inscription to William Dormer, d.1575, with references to his first wife Mary Sydney, her children & their alliances

  • All Saints: inscription to William Dormer's second wife Dorothy Catesby, foundress of the monument, with reference to her children & their marriages

  • All Saints: crested helm from the monument to William Dormer, 1590, with quartered arms of Dormer

  • All Saints: shields on west side of monument to William Dormer, 1590; Dormer impaling Sydney (or a pheon azure) & Dukes of Feria impaling Dormer surmounted by Spanish coronet

  • All Saints: lozenge in centre of monument to William Dormer, d.1575, representing Catesby (argent two lions passant sable crowned or) & quarterings

  • All Saints: son Robert from William Dormer's monument, 1590

  • All Saints: daughter Catherine (St John) from William Dormer's monument, 1590

  • All Saints: monument to Robert Dormer, 1616, & wife Elizabeth Browne

  • All Saints: Robert Dormer, master of the king's hawks, 1616, & wife Elizabeth Browne (daughter of Anthony, Viscount Montacute)

  • All Saints: shield from the monument to Robert Dormer, 1616; Dormer impaling Browne

  • All Saints: shield within spandrel from the tomb of Robert Dormer, 1616; quartered arms of Dormer impaling Browne with their quarterings

  • All Saints: children from the monument to Robert Dormer, 1616

  • All Saints: Anna Sophia Dormer, daughter of Charles, Earl of Carnarvon, d.1695 of smallpox

  • All Saints: civilian & wife, c.1470

  • All Saints: Harry Blaknall d.1460 & wife Agnes, 1489

  • All Saints: Thomas Cotes, 1648; porter at Ascott Hall

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Entry Name: Church of All Saints

Listing Date: 18 October 1966

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1320141

English Heritage Legacy ID: 350841

ID on this website: 101320141

Location: All Saints' Church, Wing, Buckinghamshire, LU7

County: Buckinghamshire

Civil Parish: Wing

Built-Up Area: Wing

Traditional County: Buckinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire

Church of England Parish: Wing with Grove

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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