Description

BRAMHAM CUM OGLETHORPE VICARAGE LANE
SE44SW (north side)
LS23
1/55 Church of All Saints
30.3.66

GV II*

Parish church. C12 and C13, altered and restored in C19 and C20. Magnesian
limestone, stone slate roof. West tower, nave with north and south aisles, chancel.
Tower of 3 offset stages, has on the west side at the 1st stage a round-headed
window with jamb shafts and roll-moulded head and at the 2nd stage a round-headed
lancet and a clockface, on the south side a very small lancet to each stage and
a similar clockface, on each side of the 3rd stage a round-headed belfry window
of 2 recessed round-headed lights and a colonette with cushion capital (these
renewed following fire in 1874), a corbel table to a deep embattled parapet with
corner pinnacles and 2 gargoyles in each outer side, and a short recessed octagonal
spire. Three-bay nave has embattled parapet on a corbel table of small carved
gargoyles interrupted by short carved pinnacles which define the bays. Buttressed
4-bay south aisle (4th bay making chapel) has a gabled porch to the 1st bay,
with C19 2-centred outer doorway, protecting a 2-centred arched south doorway
with 2 orders of colonettes carrying stiff-leaf capitals and with dog-tooth decoration
in the head; west end of this aisle has a C13 window of 2 cusped lights with
a trefoil in the head, the south side has C19 windows imitating this and the
east end has a similar restored window. Chancel has 3 tall lancets rising from
a sillband, a C19 east window of 4 lights with tracery in the head, and on the
north side one lancet and a C19 vestry. Interior: C12 tower arch with piers
which have 3 orders of moulding and cushion capitals; C12 north arcade
of round-headed arches carried on unusually high columns with square caps, and
C13 south arcade of double-chamfered 2-centred arches carried by tall octagonal
piers with moulded caps, both with matching responds; 2-centred double-chamfered
chancel arch with composite shafts and moulded tripartite caps, containing a
C20 rood; chancel has 2-bay north arcade and l-bay south arcade, and trefoiled
rere-arches to the lancet windows; various wall monuments to Fox Lane family
of Bramham Park (q.v.), notably George (d.1773).

Listing NGR: SE4271543036

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of All Saints at Wikipedia
• Church of All Saints official website
• Wikidata Q17533798

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