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TF 25 SW BROTHERTOFT HOLLAN FEN 1/8 Church of All Saints 26.1.67 II Former Chapel of Ease dedicated as Parish Church in 1924. 1812, chancel added 1880. Red brick in English bond, Westmorland and Welsh slate roofs, with stone coped gables. Timber louvred octagonal cupola with domed lead top. Nave and chancel. At the west end a traceried door with pointed wicket under a Tudor pointed arch. The 3 bay side wails of the nave have 3 brick bands to the base, and a corbelled out eaves, the slightly advanced central bay contains a 3 light window under a brick Tudor arch. It is flanked by single pointed 3 ight windows. All nave windows have wooden tracery and leaded lights. Lead rainwater hoppers. The later chancel has a triple lancet east window with ashlar surround. On the south wall of the nave an ashlar sundial over the central window. Interior. At the west end a panelled gallery with finely dentillated and fluted friezes, fluted pilasters, supported on slender cast iron columns. Plain narrow pointed chancel arch. Matchboard dado panelling to nave. Fittings. Facetted square pulpit matches panelled gallery. The gallery has its contemporary bench seats. Royal Arms. C19 octagonal font. The Chapel of Ease was built following a subscription raised by the patron and rector of Algakirk, to serve the inhabitants of the new settlements formed by the draining of the Fens under the Act of Parliament passed in 1767. Source: Whites Directory 1856. Listing NGR: TF2321850176

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