Description

SE 9683 WYKEHAM A 170
(north side)

14/117 All Saints Church

18.1.67
GV II *

Church. 1853-55. By William Butterfield. Dressed sandstone with sandstone
ashlar quoins, dressings and buttresses; slate roofs. 4-bay aisled nave,
with clerestory; south porch; chancel, organ loft and vestry. Late C13
style. Buttressed west end has two 2-light windows with foiled Y-tracery
separated by a massive buttress with steep offsets. Single foiled lancet
above. Aisle west walls have single rectangular lights. Gabled and
buttressed south porch contains triple-chamfered pointed opening with
moulded broach-stopped jambs, and a quatrefoil light above. Interior of
porch has corbelled rib vault with foliate boss to centre. Pointed doorway
has hood-mould on foliate corbels. To east of porch are three 2-light
windows with Y-tracery, 2 with foils. 3 roundels to clerestory, each
enclosing a quatrefoil. On the north side a massive extruded chimney stack
with offsets is flanked by two 2-light Y-tracery windows. North side of
chancel has a pointed vestry door to left of a foiled Y-tracery window. On
the south side are paired windows each of 2 foiled pointed lights beneath Y-
tracery. The east window is of 3 lights with foiled pointed heads beneath a
continuous hood-mould raked at each end to form gablets. Trefoil light
above. East end of vestry to north has paired foiled lights. All window
openings are chamfered, in quoined surrounds. Corbel table to chancel. All
roofs are steeply pitched. Coped gables to chancel and porch. Gable
crosses to chancel, west end and porch. Interior: arcade of double
chamfered arches, the westernmost lower than the others. The westernmost
pier is of square section and chamfered with broach stops, and has an
attached shaft to the eastern face. Remaining piers are octagonal with head
stops. Pointed chamfered chancel arch on corbels. Fittings designed by
Butterfield include the pulpit, an octagonal font with tester, and brass
altar candlesticks. The east window of 1855 is by William Wailes of
Newcastle. Choir stalls, altar rails, litany desk and tall candelabra of
1937, by Robert Thompson of Kilburn, the "Mouseman". N Pevsner, The
Buildings of England; Yorkshire, The North Riding, 1966; pp 404 - 5.
P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971.

Listing NGR: SE9648283393

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541866

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)