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SK 85 SE
5/16

BECKINGHAM
MAIN STREET
Church of All Saints

23.8.67

I
Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15 restored 1888. West tower, nave with aisles and south porch, chancel and north vestry. Ashlar and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Lead and slate roofs. Ashlar coped gables topped with cross finials. Angle buttresses with set-offs, some gabled. Moulded plinth except on chancel. All windows except aisle window have hood moulds with label stops.

Four stage tower has moulded bands. West doorway, has four-centred chamfered arch with C19 plank door, above a three-light window in a double chamfered arch with panel tracery. On the north and south a two-light window in a chamfered four-centred arch. The
third stage is blank, with a clock on the east face. The fourth stage has two-light bell openings in pairs, within deeply chamfered lancets, under ogee hood moulds which rise to pinnacles. The tower is topped with battlements and all together eight crocketed pinnacles. The four bay clerestory has two-light panel tracery windows in chamfered four-centred arch surrounds. The north aisle has a two-light west window with panel tracery under a four-centred arch, and on the north a round headed doorway with single shafts, zig-zag and nailhead, decorated with faces foliage and animals. Also three three-light panel tracery windows in chamfered segment arch surrounds. The vestry has a single lancet to the north and another three-light panel tracery window to the east. The chancel has a single lancet and a two-light flowing tracery window. The east end has three restored lancets, and the south wall has two windows the same as those to the north. The south aisle has single two-light panel tracery windows to the east and west and three similar three-light windows to the south all in chamfered segment arch surrounds. The porch arch has triple shafts, nailhead in the capitals and a deeply moulded chamfered arch. The south doorway has triple keeled shafts with dog-tooth between and dog-tooth and zig-zag in the moulded arch.

The interior has four bay north and south arcades with double chamfered pointed arches supported on elaborate compound piers and responds. Alternating one with four shafts and four spurs in the diagonals and then another with four keeled and dog-tooth in the diagonals. The chancel arch has triple shaft responds with shaftrings and a moulded arch. Octagonal font, with arched faces, supported on nine circular piers. C19 pews, pulpit and chancel screen. Stained glass window in the north aisle of 1885 by Gibbs. Monument, early C14, defaced effigy of a lady.

Listing NGR: SK8756353805

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q40117865

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]