Parish Church of All Saints

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ELTON OVEREND TL 0893 (West Side) 15/75 Parish Church of All Saints 13.12.57 II* Parish Church. Chancel arch c.1270, chancel, nave arcades, and north aisle c.1300. South arcade second and third bays rebuilt in C15. West tower and clerestorey, south aisle rebuilt and both aisles extended westward, south porch added c.1500. Tower arch restored by Rev. F W Faker (1843-45) and further improvements by Rev. P C Claughton (1845-59). Restoration 1885-6, aisle roofs renewed and clerestorey windows opened out, vestry and organ chamber added. East wall of chancel rebuilt in 1905. Walls of rubble limestone, Ketton ashlar, dressings of Barnack and Ketton stone. South elevation: West tower of three stages with clasping buttresses, moulded plinth and plain parapet, gargoyles at the angles with bands of quatrefoils below the string and on the plinth and between two upper stages. Nave with embattled parapet and four early C16 clerestorey windows each of two plain square-headed lights. South aisle south doorway with two-centred arch and label and moulded jambs, four windows three of three-trefoiled lights in a four-centred head and one similar of two lights. South porch with moulded plinth and parapet and gargoyle in each side wall, four-centred outer archway of two moulded orders, the inner order with attached shafts with moulded and embattled capitals and moulded bases; two sundials. Chancel with three windows, eastern window c.1300 reset with two-trefoiled lights and interlacing tracery, centre window early C14 of two pointed lights with a quatrefoil in a two-centred head, and western window mid C14 of two trefoiled lights with leaf-tracery in a two centred head, 'low-side' window below with iron grating, and blocked single light window; C16 doorway. Rebuilt east wall with buttresses terminating in crocketed pinnacles. Interior: Nave arcades of four bays; north arcade c.1310 with two-centred arches of two moulded orders and quatrefoiled columns with moulded capitals and bases on square plinths; south arcade one bay c.1310 and similar to north arcade, rebuilt bays with two-centred arches of two orders the outer chamfered and the inner hollow-chamfered, quatrefoil columns with moulded capitals and bases on square plinths set diagonally. Tower arch two-centred of three moulded orders, the outer continuous and the inner orders resting on attached shafts with moulded bases and capitals. Stair turret door with moulded jambs and four-centred head. Chancel arch, two-centred of two moulded orders, the outer continuous and the inner resting on grouped shafts with moulded capitals enriched with nail-head ornament. Blocked rood loft doorway to staircase. Roofs; north aisle restored, c.1500, low-pitched of five bays with moulded tie beams and curved braces; south aisle similar; south porch roof c.1500 of two bays with moulded main timbers. Piscina and sedilia with moulded cinquefoiled head, C14; in south aisle early C16 piscina with four-centred head. Font, C14 octagonal bowl with moulded edge, plain stem and restored plinth. For monuments and floor slabs see RCHM and VCH.

R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p76 V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p162 Pevsner: Buildings of England, p238

Listing NGR: TL0887193562

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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 76
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 238
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 162

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