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SU 55 NW KINGSCLERE HANNINGTON
8/45
16.5.66 Church of All Saints
GV
I Cll, C12, C13, C14, C15, C19. An aisleless nave and chancel of Saxon origin, the nave
mainly Norman, the chancel rebuilt in the C15, the south aisle (of 2 bays) added
before 1200, the nave and aisle lengthened to 3 bays In the C19, when a north porch
and bell turret were added. Tile roof, continued to a low eaves over the aisle, bell
turret of 3 stages, with a broach spire above curving side walls and a rectangular
base, all covered in shingles. Walling is of flint with some stone added, and stone
dressings; the north-eeast corner of the nave has long and short work of the earliest
period, there are buttresses on the south side and a tall buttress in the centre of
the west gable, a moulded string links the Victorian lancets around the west end. The
chancel windows are single lights with 5 cusps within rectangular hoodmoulds, the east
and south windows of the south aisle, are, C14, the others of C19 date, including a
Geometrical east window. The inside has a piscina in the east wall, a south side
squinch, scalloped caps and cylindrical columns, arches of circa 1300, a Jacobean
pulpit, the baluster stem of a classical font (the present font being Victorian) and 2
examples of modern glazing.
Listing NGR: SU5393255809
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