ALL SAINTS CHURCH

Taken by Davy August 20th 1829

Chancel. 29 ft 4 in long, 16 ft 3 in wide, thatched and ceiled. Communion raised three steps.

End of south wall, a Piscina. south side window of Chancel some painted glass. Shield of Arms, England with a label of 5 points As each point charged with three fleur de lis, or the arms of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and of Henry, Duke of Lancaster his father in law.

Some of the pavement is of small pamments on which are cinquefoils in circles, flowers, heads, one a lions face. The steps to the alter are of same kind.

Nave. 45 ft long 20 ft 6 in wide. Thatched nave separated from the aisle by four pointed arches supported by octagon pillars. Aisle. 43 ft 10 in long 17 ft 10 in wide. At East end on each side of the window a niche.

In South wall, a piscina, plain arch and cinque foil window. Porch. On south side. Steeple. West end of aisle, square, built of stones, not embattled dimensions inside 12 ft 9 in square.

Bells. 1. Virginis Egregie Vocor Campana Marie 2. Quaesumus Andrea Famulorum Suscipe Vota. both these bells bear thrice repeated the Norwich sprigged shield. 3. Johanes Draper me fecit, 1608.

Arms in All Saints Church. A.D.1710. 1. Gu. an inescutcheon arg. between 6 Martlets of the same. 2. Arg. 3 Crowns, or. 3. Az. a bend. arg between three lions rampant, or. 4. Gu. a bird [spread eagle] arg. 5. Gu. a lion passant guardant, or a file of 5 points az each charged with 3 fleur de lis. 5. Az [3] a chevron, or. note - of these arms only no 5 now remains visible in the first window from chancel arch south side of chancel the border of the painted windows in south aisle is formed with a spread eagle on a dark ground alternating with plain red glass. may 1875.

CHURCH NOTES taken may 1875.

Nave. Separated from the South aisle by four pointed arches having continuous dress courses and supported by plain octagon pillars. The capitals are also octagon (moulded) simple and plain. These columns have moulded bases of the same character.

The Chancel arch has the same characteristics but there is no drip course and the capitals are no longer than those of the nave. To the south of the right capital of this arch is the entrance from the stair case to the rood-loft, and one foot below it is a grotesque lions head in oak. one of the supports of the old rood beam. It has been coloured.

In the Nave are some low benches of riven horse chestnut terminating in the square fleur-de-lis form, or rather like the square crocket represented in Parkers Handbook.

There are three windows of the nave remaining. Of these the West window is of decidedly later work and that which is near the door is of fine form having two lights, cusped and surmounted by a cusped elliptic aureole. In the latter window are some fragments of fine painted glass, the upper portions of crocketed canopies in yellow,black,and grey.

On either side of this window, about halfway up the wall at a distance of about four and a half feet, are two round-headed loops, of which nothing can be seen inside. In the other window of three lights the mullions across the head and the sill are much lower than that of the former. To the left, level with the sill, is a square ambry closed with a wooden door much decayed.

The lower part of the rood screen remains, it is oak and represents an arcade of eight panels in four bays. It is placed upon a massive beam. The upper portion was of similar character and design, and probably did not exceed ten feet in height from the floor to the nave.

Above it was the rood loft, the supports of which may be seen in the gaps remaining in the moulding of the Chancel; while in its right pier is a flight of ten steps the approach to the loft. The entrance is now blocked up and covered by the pulpit.

The Pulpit is octagonal, old and rudely carved. The same may be said of the clerk’s desk. The font is of stone, octagonal, straight sided, each upper third of the faces has shallow panelling resembling the tracery of windows, of which one is a cusped quatre-foil as in the tower window of the church.

The roof of the nave is supported on four cross beams, and is very rude and temporary in its structure. The Chancel Pavement. The floor is paved with tiles arranged in the pattern of circles enclosing cinquefoils. This arrangement remains on the steps leading to the Communion Table, and is more perfect at the entrance to the chancel.

On the chancel lower steps this design was bordered by lozenge shaped tiles in pairs, alternate red and yellow. All these tiles were apparently impressed with a design, cinquefoils, grotesque faces or birds. The tiles also were coloured differently; in the chief design the cinque-foil would be red, the encircling disc black or dark vitreous blue, the outer circle yellow, the intercepting disc red, the curvilinear triangles dark. There are some tiles that would modify such arrangement. These are oval and stellate of 6 points (mullets) in some places lozenge-shaped tiles were arranged as to produce a similar design, but these have been much disturbed.