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TA 10 SW GRASBY CLIXBY 8/99 Church of All Hallows 1-11-66 G.V. 11* Parish church now vested in the Redundant Churches Fund. C13, C14, with a late C19 restoration by Hodgson Fowler. Ironstone, limestone, slate roof, brick blocking. Chancel only with C19 western porch. West front, has at its centre a projecting flat roofed porch built by Hodgson Fowler late in the C19, and incorporating the C13 west door. This doorway consists of a pointed arch with roll moulding, a zone of dogtooth and a chamfer, slightly moulded imposts and single engaged shafts on the reveals with a further zone of dogtooth behind. Hood mould is hacked back flush. Imposts continue as string courses to either side. The porch is built against the blocking of the C13 chancel arch, visible to either side and having a double chamfer. To either side of the arch, the responds of the C13 nave arcades remain. There are engaged octagonal piers with hollow moulded capitals, a zone of hobnail decoration and hollow moulded abaci. On the north side of the chancel arch, the respond is visible, which is of the curling tail form, ornamented with a hobnailed octagonal capital. The north wall of the nave has a chamfered plinth, as do the other walls of the church. The east wall of the chancel contains a late C14 3 light window, the mullions and upper parts of which are a C19 restoration. The lights have cusped ogee heads and are contained in a 3 centred single chamfered arch with moulded hood mould. On the south side of the chancel is a priest's door, now blocked in brick, with chamfered reveals and a flat ogee head. Immediately above is a probably contemporary early C14 2 light window, the lights having cusped ogee trefoil heads with quatrefoil over contained within a pointed single chamfered arch with a chamfered hood mould and human head label stops. To the east is a single similar window. Inside; the shape of the chancel arch is visible in the east wall, and to either side of the C19 west door are recesses, the heads of which are made from reused sections of C13 roll mouldings. In the south wall is a sedilia with a fine deeply cusped ogee head. In the sanctuary is a piscina with a cusped ogee head and a slightly projecting rounded fluted basin. Sanctuary floor has Minton tiles. C19 roof has contemporary painting. Font is C15 and imported from the church at Low Toynton (Lincs.). Octagonal in shape with in arcades round the stem figures of saints. The bowl also octagonal, and in the square side panels are angels, a Tudor rose, other flowers and pairs of figures. In the reveal of the south priest's door is a loose C13 base, octagonal, with nail head decoration, doubtless from the demolished nave arcade. Other fittings are C19. Monument; before the altar steps a fine ledger slab to Robert Blanchard, Priest, C14, with Latin inscription round the margin, engraved with a crossfleury and chalice. Listing NGR: TA1023904339

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