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STAPLEFORD CHURCH LANE SK 85 NE 3/78 Church of All Saints 23.8.67 GV II Parish church. C11, C13, C14, 1770 restored 1903-4. Coursed rubble and brick with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs. Chamfered plinth, ashlar quoins. Brick coped gable with kneelers and dentilated eaves. Coursed rubble west tower, with nave and chancel under single roof, rebuilt in brick 1770. Tower, west front has doorway, segment brick head and plank door. Above a 2-light flat headed C14 window with plaque over inscribed 'T W'?, then 3 heads from label stops buried in masonary. Above again another C14 window with over 4 C13 polygonal shafts buried in masonary. The north front has a single 2-light flush mullion window. The. tower is topped by a pyramidal roof of 1904. The nave north wall has 2 tall pointed windows in flush brick surrounds with wooden cross mullions. The chancel north, east and south walls have each a single round headed window with moulded ashlar surrounds, impost blocks and keystones, that to east has lower half blocked. There is a round headed blocked doorway to south in a similar surround. The south nave wall has 2 pointed windows similar to those on north, each with 2 oval slate wall tablets to right. Interior has C11 pillar piscina with zig-zag shaft. Chamfered pointed tower arch on earlier responds. C18 wooden altar rail. Plain C19 pews, pulpit and panel ceiling. Wooden screen, choir stalls and reredos of 1904. Listing NGR: SK8862357598

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