Description

3543 UPPER CLATFORD

11/26 Church of All Saints

20.12.60 II*

Parish church. C12, tower of 1578, C17 alterations, C18 porch, north aisle of
1890, extended chancel of 1894, vestry of 1903, and restorations of 1908 (Tower)
and 1968 (porch). Flint and roughcast walls, with a tile roof. Originally an
aisleless nave and chancel, with a north aisle added in the late C12; in the C17
the arcade was removed and the nave widened to incorporate the aisle, the
chancel being correspondingly widened on its north side; 2 bays of the nave arcade
were re-used to form a double chancel arch, and the roof was supported on 2
octagonal timber posts. The present north aisle was added in 1890 with a new
arcade of 3 bays, and the chancel was extended (as a sanctuary) in 1894. The
exterior has roughcast walls with stone dressings; there are 3 windows of the
early C17, Victorian coupled lancets, and Victorian/Decorated east and south
windows to the sanctuary, the north aisle has 2 small triple lights and a
blocked Norman (re-set) doorway. The tower (probably replacing an earlier
structure) is plain, with stepped buttresses, flint walls up to the bell-stage,
which is cement rendered, and a plain parapet with crocketted comer pinnacles.
The porch, of brickwork, has a round arch with a key. The interior is Victorian
except for the nave, which has 2 slightly pointed chancel arches resting on drum
columns; the posts support tie beams, above which are 3 slender Tuscan columns
(supporting the ceiling). There is a Norman piscina pillar (placed in the
sanctuary) and a stone font in the shape of a chalice, with the rim inscribed
..."Richard Greene of Winterbourne Stoke gave this 1629..." and floor slabs of
C18 and C19 date.

Listing NGR: SU3419941926

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539520

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