Description

SO 45 NE MONKLAND CP MONKLAND

5/80 Church of All Saints

11.6.59

GV II*

Parish church. C13, rebuilt by G E Street in 1866 incorporating C12, C13 and C14 fragments. Coursed and random rubble with ashlar dressings under a tile roof, the spire is shingled. West tower, nave with south porch and chancel with north vestry. The tower is C13 of three stages with a corbelled cornice and a timber broach spire. The second stage has lancets with labels, the first stage a square-headed window in each wall. West wall of ground stage has a trefoiled window with label. Nave rebuilt 1866. The south wall has four windows, from west to east alternate C12 semi-circular headed windows with tufa dressings and C14 window of two trefoiled lights with label. South porch C14 much restored timber-framing. The outer entrance has an arch-braced tie-beam. The sides are of five cinquefoiled lights. The reset south door of the late C13 has a two-centred arch and moulded label, as well as moulded jambs. The north wall of nave has two C12 windows to centre, to west a C14 trefoiled lancet, to east of two pointed lights, both with label. Chancel rebuilt 1866. South wall has a window of two trefoiled lights under a two-centred head. East window of three trefoiled lights with a label which has head stops, Interior: the tower arch is two-centred and of two chamfered orders, the outer continued down the Jambs, the inner with moulded capitals. Chancel arch has a two-centred head of two moulded orders, the inner order with moulded capitals and engaged respond shafts. In south wall of chancel a two-seat sedillia and a piscina. Font has plain round bowl tapering towards base, probably C13. A few C14 floor tiles are re-set around the foot of the C19 pulpit, which is decorated with four carved figures of saints. (RCHM, 3, p 150; BoE, p 254).

Listing NGR: SO4603357671

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)