Description

SD 68 NW KILLINGTON KILLINGTON

21/110 Church of All Saints
12.2.62

G.V. II*

Church. C14 with alterations of C17, vestry of 1894. Roughcast stone with
ashlar dressings, slate roof. Single-vessel nave and chancel, west tower and
south vestry. North facade of 5 bays. 1st bay has C14 straight-headed window
of 2 cusped lights; 2nd bay has C17 2-light straight-headed window; 3rd bay has
3-light C14 window as to 1st bay; 4th and 5th bays have single lights of C16 or
C17, that to 4th bay double-chamfered. South facade has C17 windows, the 1st a
hollow-chamfered light the 2nd and 3rd of 2 lights, the 2nd double-chamfered.
Eastern end has vestry with quoins and half-hipped roof; Tudor-headed west
entrance and 2-light east window. East end has moulded verges and ball-finial;
3-light window in splayed reveals. Tower has segmental pointed entrances, the
inner one C14. Segmental pointed louvred bell openings and pyramidal slate
roof. Interior has mid C19 roof collar and kingpost trusses on wall brackets.
West end has small gallery between 2 walls, medieval holy water stoup. Gallery
has trefoil-headed panelling. Small font with alabaster shafts. Painted boards
for Creed, Commandments and Lord's Prayer. Small medieval stained glass panel
to 3-light window, armorial bearing: Pickering. Black marble wall tablet to
north side, Jane Cook (died 1771), architrave and pediment. East window has
stained glass of 1907. Former font, early to mid C17, timber, octagonal moulded
bowl on 16-sided shaft with octagonal pyramidal timber cover. Built as the
chapel to Killington Hall (q.v.) by Pickering family and became parochial in
1585.

Listing NGR: SD6132288992

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543901

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