Description

1. 5320 GREAT WAISINGHAM CHURCH ROAD

Church of All Saint's and St Peter TF 9337 NE 5/1A 6.3.59.

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2. Mainly C14. Flint with ashlar dressings, with lead roofs. Comprising: nave, north and south aisles, west tower, north and south porches. Chancel destroyed. Clerestory windows are quatrefoils within circles. North and south aisles have C14 2-light reticulated tracery windows, at east end of aisles similar but 3 lights. Large C14 west tower with diagonal buttresses on west corners, later rendered brick parapet and 2-light bell openings, and large 3-light west window with reticulated tracery. Perpendicular north and south porches, the south porch with niches flanking entrance. Interior: 4-bay north and south arcades. Good arched brace nave roof with small collar-beams, and contemporary north aisle roof. Very good late C15 benches, almost complete, in nave and aisles. C17 altar table, and rails with moulded balusters and finials with central gate. C15 font with C17 cover. Pulpit dated 1613 incorporating earlier traceried panels. Some fragments of C14 stained glass in heads of north and south aisle windows.

Listing NGR: TF9384937552

External Links

• Wikidata Q17537210

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