CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, LOCKINGTON ROAD

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LUND LOCKINGTON ROAD SE 94 NE (north side) 2/54 Church of All Saints 7.2.68 II* Church. C15 west tower, chancel 1845-6 by Chantrell, nave rebuilt 1853. Ashlar, flat tile roofs. 2-stage west tower, 5-bay nave with south porch and north aisle, 3-bay chancel with north vestry. Tower: moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses with offsets. Small trefoil-headed light to lower stage. 2-light pointed belfry opening with cinquefoil heads under hoodmould with face stops and an angel at the apex. Crenellated parapet. 3-light pointed west window with Perpendicular tracery under hoodmould with grotesque stops. Above, the figure of a praying priest. Nave: chamfered plinth, buttresses with offsets. Trefoil-headed lancets, chamfered corbel table, raised coped gable with Celtic cross finial. Projecting south porch has pointed door under hoodmould with foliated stops. Double-chamfered pointed south door to nave. Chancel: high chamfered plinth, buttresses with offsets. 3 pointed windows with cusped Y-tracery, pointed priests' door with continuous chamfer: on the chamfer, over the head of the door, is inscribed: 'A DAY IN THY COURTS IS BETTER THAN A THOUSAND'. 3-light pointed east window with curvilinear tracery under hoodmould. Coped gable with flory cross finial. Interior: pointed double-chamfered tower arch dying into responds, traces of red ochre paint to arch. Above are 3 equidistant praying angels, the central angel apparently supporting a rood. To left and right are flanking tower buttresses corbelled out over moulded bases embellished with foliage. North arcade of 5 bays: cylindrical piers on waterholding bases carry round abaci supporting pointed double-chamfered arches. C12 tub font with blank arcading trimmed back at the base. North wall of north aisle bears a wall tablet in memory of Thomas Delgarno, Vicar, died 1717, and to Mary and Elizabeth, his daughters. Plain marble tablet with good lettering in eared and shouldered architrave under a shallow open pediment. Beneath the tablet is a cherub on a small corbel. Chancel: C15 tomb recess to north wall, now used as a portal to the north vestry. Nearby lies a fragment of an alabaster chest tomb: an angel carries a shield beneath a crocketed ogee. In the north-east and south-east corners of the chancel are medieval effigies of 2 women: that in the north-east corner bears her heart in her hands.

Listing NGR: SE9701748145

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National Grid Reference: SE 97017 48145

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