Building record 434/4/1 - Church of All Saints

All Saints Church dates to the 13th-14th century and is constructed of stone with lead roofs. The church consists of a chancel, south chapel, nave, north aisle, double south aisle, south porch and west tower. The nave, aisles and tower have battlemented parapets. The chancel is decorated with carved sedilia on which Cromwell's soldiers sharpened their swords, a piscina and an aumbry. On the north wall is a fine perpendicular tomb with a recumbent effigy of a priest, John Dyeson, rector 1439-45. The recess with cusped and panelled back is in a rectangular surround with flanking buttresses with pinnacles and a frieze of 13 crocketed niches. Outside the back wall of the tomb projects with panelled flanking buttresses and the face decorated by a series of panels with shields and quatrefoils. The south chapel is entered from the chancel by an arched opening with carved corbels. In the chapel is an 18th century bench. The north aisle dates to the 16th century. The south porch is decorated with diagonal buttresses, a plain parapet, heavily moulded plinth and outer doorway with 3 richly carved orders, the inner with ball-flower the outer with foliage, and ogee head mould with finial.

{1} Church. C13 and C14, restored C19. Regular coursed and ashlar lias with lead roofs. Aisled nave with double south aisle; chancel and west tower. Chancel: South elevation of 2-window range of 2- and 3-light windows, that to left is
C19. South chapel projection has one C19, three-light square-headed window to the south and one 3-light west window with segmental arch head. Chancel north elevation of one-window range of a 3-light Perpendicular window flanked by slender buttresses. The buttresses and wall below the window are extensively decorated with cusps, quatrefoils and shields. East window of chancel of 3-lights with Reticulated tracery. Outer south aisle of 3-window range of 3-light windows; that to far left has a square head, the other have segmental heads. Gabled roof with ashlar gable parapets. South porch has ogee-headed outer arch with 3 orders of ball flowers and fleurons. West elevation of south aisles of 2-window range of 3-light windows that to left has a concave soffit and square head. North aisle of 3-window range of 3-light windows with plain segmental heads. North door to right of centre has double chamfered arch. North chapel of one-window range of a C19 three-light square-headed window to north and 2-light window to east. Nave clerestory of 4-window range of 2-light windows with one 4-light window to east of north elevation. Gabled roof with ashlar parapets. West tower of 4 stages with clasping buttresses to western angles of lower 3 stages. 2-light Perpendicular window in west face of second stage has niche above in third stage. 2-light Perpendicular bell-chamber openings in fourth stage have transoms with cusping. Castellated parapet above. Interior: Double-chamfered arches with octagonal piers. Triple-chamfered tower arch. The chancel has a flat plastered ceiling and the nave has a shallow C19 roof with plastered underside. Sedilia to south of chancel has nodding ogee arches. Monument to John Dycson, rector from 1439 to 1445. Alabaster effigy on low tomb chest decorated with quatrefoils, low segmental arch over with flanking buttresses decorated with small niches. This monument corresponds internally with the external display of Perpendicular decoration. Thomas Rumpin, died 1770, by William Cox senior to left of south chapel arch; marble tablet with cherub below and armorial device above. Thomas Wills, died 1774, in south chapel; marble tablet with curved sides. John Watkin, died 1772, in the chancel; oval tablet with armorial device above. Various other C19 marble tablets. Bench ends probably C16 carved with Gothic tracery.

{9} The earliest surviving building within the study area is the Grade I Listed Church of All Saints, Yelvertoft, which contains C13th and C14th elements but was largely restored in the C19th.

{10} [Former list description] All Saints Church dates to the 15th Century and is constructed of stone with lead roofs. The church consists of a chancel, south chapel, nave, north aisle, double south aisle, south porch and west tower.

The nave, aisles and tower have battlemented parapets. The chancel is decorated with carved sedilia on which Cromwell's soldiers sharpened their swords, a piscina and an aumbry. On the north wall is a fine perpendicular tomb with a recumbent effigy of a priest, John Dyeson, rector 1439-45. The recess with cusped and panelled back is in a rectangular surround with flanking buttresses with pinnacles and a frieze of 13 crocketed niches. Outside the back wall of the tomb projects with panelled flanking buttresses and the face decorated by a series of panels with shields and quatrefoils. The south chapel is entered from the chancel by an arched opening with carved corbels. In the chapel is an 18th century bench. The north aisle dates to the 16th century. The south porch is decorated with diagonal buttresses, a plain parapet, heavily moulded plinth and outer doorway with 3 richly carved orders, the inner with ball-flower the outer with foliage, and ogee head mould with finial.

{14} Undated photo;

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<11> Ordnance Survey Map (Scale/date), 1:2500, 2007 (Map). SNN112944.

<12> Historic England, Undated, A view from the south-east of All Saints' Church, OP11358 (Archive). SNN113551.

<13> Historic England, Undated, All Saints Church, Yelvertoft, BF107454 (Archive). SNN113550.

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