Details
TL 1442 SOUTHILL WARDEN ROAD
13/254 Parish Church of All
31.10.66 Saints
GV II*
Parish church. C14 and C15 details, mostly reworked 1814. Coursed ironstone
rubble, with dressings in ironstone and limestone, alterations and additions
in red brick. Some areas rendered. Chancel, nave, N aisle, S aisle, S porch,
tower. Chancel: 3-light C15 E window, 5-light window (also C15) and pointed
arched single light to S, all reworked. Blocked pointed-arched doorway to S.
Chancel heightened in brick. Adjoining to N is sepulchral vault to the Byng-
family, of rendered brick with round-headed doorway to E. C19 chancel arch.
Nave: pointed arched 5-bay arcades, with additional half bays to W, apparently
C19. Clerestory, in brick, has 4 windows per side, all of 2 lights under 4-
centred head, with wood frames. N aisle: 2 5-light C15 windows (reworked),
C15 doorway with pointed head, and early C14 pointed-arched 3-light window.
Pointed doorway to W end. Doorway to E leading to Byng vault. S aisle: 4 3-
light C15 windows, again with reworked tracery. Blocked pointed doorway to E
end, blocked pointed-arched window to W end. S porch: gabled, with pointed-
arched entrance and angle buttresses. Chancel, nave, aisle and porch all have
plain parapets. W tower: C15, 3 stages, with square buttresses to E angles,
clasping buttresses to W angles, and embattled parapet in brick. Pairs of 2-
light windows to each side of top stage, some small single lights to lower
stages. W elevation has pointed arched door with a square head and traceried
spandrels, surmounted by 3-light window. Tower arch blocked. Interior: roofs
and seating all C19. Font, 1937 by Sir Albert Richardson. Variety of floor
and wall monuments. Chancel memorials include floor slabs to John Nodes
d.1666, Sir John Kelynge d.1680, and Mary Upwood d.1687. N aisle wall
monuments include one of white marble with draped urn to Lucy Waller d.1797,
and one of polychrome marble with urn and festoons against an obelisk to John
Ringstead d.1738, his wife Ann d.1757, and 5 children. S aisle monuments
include a polychrome marble tablet with urn and consoles, to Edward Dilly
d.1779, and a grey marble aedicule with broken segmental pediment and foliate
apron, to Nathanael Fowler d.1710. Byng vault includes George Viscount
Torrington, Rear Admiral of Great Britain, d.1732, and Admiral John Byng,
executed 1757.
Listing NGR: TL1458742231
