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BECKINGHAM MAIN STREET SK 85 SE 5/16 Church of All Saints 23.8.67 - I Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15 restored 1888. West tower, nave with aisles and south porch, chancel and north vestry. Ashlar and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Lead and slate roofs. Ashlar coped gables topped with cross finials. Angle buttresses with set-offs, some gabled. Moulded plinth except on chancel. All windows except aisle window have hood moulds with label stops. Four stage tower has moulded bands. West doorway, has 4-centred chamfered arch with C19 plank door, above a 3-light window in a double chamfered arch with panel tracery. On the north and south a 2-light window in a chamfered 4-centred arch. The third stage is blank, with a clock on the east face. The fourth stage has 2- light bell openings in pairs, within deeply chamfered lancets, under ogee hood moulds which rise to pinnacles. The tower is topped with battlements and all together 8 crocketed pinnacles. The 4 bay clerestory has 2-light panel tracery windows in chamfered 4-centred arch surrounds. The north aisle has a 2-light west window with panel tracery under a 4-centred arch, and on the north a round headed doorway with single shafts, zig-zag and nailhead, decorated with faces foliage and animals. Also 3, 3-light panel tracery windows in chamfered segment arch surrounds. The vestry has a single lancet to the north and another 3-light panel tracery window to the east. The chancel has a single lancet and a 2-light flowing tracery window. The east end has 3 restored lancets, and the south wall has 2 windows the same as those to the north. The south aisle has single 2-light panel tracery windows to the east and west and 3 similar 3-light windows to the south all in chamfered segment arch surrounds. The porch arch has triple shafts, nailhead in the capitals and a deeply moulded chamfered arch. The south doorway has triple keeled shafts with dog-tooth between and dog-tooth and zig- zag in the moulded arch. The interior has 4 bay north and south arcades with double chamfered pointed arches supported on elaborate compound piers and responds. Alternating one with 4 shafts and 4 spurs in the diagonals and then another with 4 keeled and dog-tooth in the diagonals. The chancel arch has triple shaft responds with shaftrings and a moulded arch. Octagonal font, with arched faces, supported on 4 circular piers. C19 pews, pulpit and chancel screen. Stained glass window in the north aisle of 1885 by Gibbs. Monument, early C14, defaced effigy of a lady. Listing NGR: SK8756253806

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