A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



The church of ALL SAINTS consists 

 CHURCH of chancel 25 ft. 6 in. by 15 ft. 9 in. 

 with vestry on the north and chapel on 

 the south side, clearstoried nave of three bays 36 ft. 

 6 in. by 14 ft., north and south aisles, south porch, 

 and west tower 11 ft. 6 in. square, all these measure- 

 ments being internal. The north aisle is 8 ft. 6 in. 

 wide and the south aisle 7 ft. 6 in., the width across 

 nave and aisles being 34. ft. 8 in. 



With the exception of the tower, which is faced 

 with dressed stone, the church is built of rubble, 

 plastered internally, and the chancel has a grey slated, 

 eaved roof. The other roofs are leaded and of low pitch, 

 behind battlemented parapets. 



The chancel, chancel arch and south arcade of the 

 nave belong to the latter half of the 13th century, 

 though the chancel retains only two original windows 

 and has been otherwise altered. The north arcade 



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North Aisle 



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Scale of Feet 

 Plan of All Saints' Church, Aldwinkle 



and aisle, vestry and clearstory date from the 14th 

 century, the arcade being first built, while the chapel, 

 tower and porch are 15th-century additions, the 

 chapel having been erected by William Chambre and 

 his wife, who founded a chantry there in 1488. Several 

 new windows were inserted about this time. The 

 chancel was restored in 1863, and the rest of the 

 church in 1893, when the old scats and a west gallery 

 were removed and the tower arch opened out. The 

 building is at present used chiefly for funerals, and is 

 furnished with chairs. 



The chancel has a four-light east window with 

 much restored early geometrical tracery, and in the 

 north wall is a window of two uncusped lights with a 

 quatrcfoilcd circle in the head. The other windows, 

 one at the west end of the north wall and tlie other on 

 the south side, are 15th-century insertions, each of 

 two cinquefoiled lights. The piscina is in the sill of 

 the south window and there are brackets for statues 

 in the east wall, on cither side of the window. The 

 chancel arch is of two chamfered orders on moulded 

 corbels, that on the south side having nail head orna- 

 ment and a small angle shaft supporting the outer 

 order. 



The 13th-century south arcade has chamfered 

 arches of two orders springing from cylindrical piers 



with moulded capitals and bases, and from a similar 

 respond at the west end. The nail head occurs in the 

 capital of the easternmost pier, and at the east end the 

 arch 'ests on a corbel.''* The circular bases stand on 

 large square plinths 9 in. high, which may be part of 

 the south wall of an earlier church. The north arcade 

 has cylindrical piers of less diameter*^ and half-round 

 responds, all with circular moulded capitals and 

 bases,'" and the arches are also of two chamfered 

 orders. There is a 14th-century piscina with muti- 

 lated bowl in the south-east corner of the north aisle, 

 and this aisle retains its 14th-century east and west 

 windows, each of two trefoiled lights with a quatre- 

 foil in the head, and the west window of the south 

 aisle is of the same period and style. The other win- 

 dows of the aisles are four-centred 15th-century 

 insertions of three cinquefoiled lights, and the clear- 

 story has two square-headed two-light windows on 

 each side. The moulded north 

 doorway is contemporary with 

 the wall, but the south door- 

 way is of 15th century date. 

 The nave roof has four 

 moulded principals, one of 

 which bears the initials and 

 date ' I.B. 1676.' The chancel 

 roof is modern. 



The Chambre chantry chapel 

 is 14 ft. 6 in. long by 10 ft. 6 in. 

 wide and is open to the chan- 

 cel by a 15th-century arch of 

 two moulded orders on at- 

 tached shafts, and to the aisle 

 by a narrower arch of the 

 same type, the shafts having 

 moulded capitals. In the east 

 capital of the arch to the 

 chancel and the north capital 

 of the aisle arch are shields of 

 arms, the former the arms of William Chambre, and 

 there is a third below a bracket in the east wall. The 

 chapel stands in front of the south aisle and is lighted 

 by a four-light east window with Perpendicular tracery 

 and by two three-light windows of the same type on 

 the south side. Below the 

 westernmost window is an ex- 

 ternal doorway with rectang- 

 ular hood, and in the usual 

 position an elaborate traceried 

 piscina recess with battle- 

 mented cresting and circular 

 bowl. The late 14th-century 

 vestry retains two original 

 windows and its west wall is 

 weathered back so as to clear 

 the older chancel window. 



The tower is of four un- 

 equal stages and has a moulded 



plinth and buttresses covering the angles, on 

 which animal figures are carved on the strings at 

 each stage. The moulded west doorway is deeply 

 recessed, with crocketcd ogee hood set within a 

 rectangular frame, with quatrcfoilcd circles in the 

 spandrels. Over the doorway is a traceried window of 

 three cinquefoiled liglits, with a small niche above, 



C II A M a R E . Ciilei a 

 cbeveron bettveen three 

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*• The corbel may have been ihapcd 

 from a former reipond, 



*" 'I'lic piers arc 17 in. diam. Those of 

 the *ou(h ;nc.i(Jc arc 21 in. 



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