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Listing Text

TILNEY ALL SAINTS CHURCH ROAD
TF 5617

13/32 Church of All Saints

11.8.51

G.V. I

Parish church. Late C12 nave and chancel, late C13 and C14 west tower, spire
1428. Nave and chancel aisles remodelled C15. Battlements added 1523-25.
Barnack stone, partly rendered. 4 stage tower. Angle buttresses develop out
of polygonal corner turrets which terminate above crenellated parapet in
crocketted pinnacles. West door of 4 orders undercut mouldings below ogeed
hood. West window of 3 pointed lancets, each separated by pilaster strips.
Similar fenestration to north and south but with blind central light. 2-light
ogeed reticulated ringing chamber windows and 2-light belfry windows of
mouchette form. String courses divide storeys. Octagonal spire with gabled
lucarnes at base on alternate facets. Stepped buttresses to nave. Rave and
chancel continuous. South aisle with one 5-light square-headed window and
one 3-light arched Perpendicular window west of porch. East of porch 6
straight-headed windows of 3 or 4 cusped lights run to chancel east end. 2
sloping brick C18 buttresses at intervals. Nave and chancel aisles parapeted.
South clerestory windows run as follows from west : encircled quatrefoil,
2 2-light square headed windows, 3 3-light depressed arched C15 windows, in
chancel 3 3-light square-headed windows. Gabled south porch with stepped side
buttresses. Arched outer door. One blocked triangular - headed side window
north and south. Late C13 inner doorway with column supporting naturalistic
foliage carving. East end of aisles without windows. 2 flat clasping
buttresses of C12 date frame 5-light transomed C15 east window. Diagonal
buttresses at aisles and flat stepped north buttresses. 2 eastern north aisle,
windows of 3-lights and cusped early Perpendicular tracery. These separated
by large sloping C18 brick buttress. Remainder of aisle of 3-light arched
panel tracery windows. Early C14 north door below plain 2-light square-headed
window. Clerestory of 2-light square headed form. Interior. C13 tower
connected to nave by one C14 bay with double chamfered arch. Tower arch of
quatrefoil piers with moulded circular bases and capitals supporting arch of
2 hollow chamfers separated by a roll. Stilted west door arch. 2 roll moulded
stairway arches in thickness of western buttresses. West window lights shafted
on interior with wall passage. Ringing chamber floor survives. Late C12 7
bay arcade (extending 2 bays into chancel) of drum piers on waterholding bases
with waterleaf, scalloped or crocket capitals support rebated semi-circular
arches. Remarkable late C15 hammerbeam roof with 2 registers of hammers.
Alternate trusses drop on wall posts to corbels in form of angels bearing
scrolls. These angels immediately below statues of prophets in canopied niches.
Curved arched braces rise to wall plate. Principal trusses have hammerposts
carved as angels with open books, secondary trusses have angels bearing tablets.
Upper, false, hammerbeams with flight of winged angels bearing books and
tablets. One tier moulded butt purlins, moulded collars with struts to ridge
piece. C19 chancel hammerbeam roof with angels bearing shields. Moulded
purlins, principals and collars are C15 survivals. C15 stepped sedilia in
chancel south wall with cusped ogee heads to each bay below cornice. Cornice
continues east over similar piscina. 2 blocked chancel windows on each side.
Chancel screen dated 1618. 2 bays right and left of opening. Panelled dado
with top freize of scroll decoration. Pierced foliate heads to lights. Top
rail surmounted by paired balusters alternating with panelled obelisks. Below
these a freize of fretwork and dragons. 4 bay late C15 parclose screens to
chancel aisles with Perpendicular tracery and crenellated top rails. Handsome
C17 altar rails of arched bays divided by muntins against which are turned
balusters. Arches filled with circular and scrolled strapwork pierced panels.
C17 octagonal font with traceried stem and bowl decorated with alternating
biblical verses and geometric patterns. Painted Royal Arms to Queen Anne date
1711 at west end of south aisle within original frame. The frame with openwork
obelisks.


Listing NGR: TF5683717973

Source: English Heritage

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