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Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints

All Saints is an impressive church in a mixture of architectural styles.

Of particular note are the Early English arcades of c1190 and the 13th century transept with its huge window.

The building retains two 18th century wall paintings, and has a fine carved Norman font.

August 2012

Westborough, All Saints church
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints

All Saints is an impressive church in a mixture of architectural styles.

Of particular note are the Early English arcades of c1190 and the 13th century transept with its huge window.

The building retains two 18th century wall paintings, and has a fine carved Norman font.

August 2012

Westborough, All Saints church
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1913 states :-

"The church of All Saints is a building of stone, chiefly Early English of the early 13th century, consisting of chancel, with chapel or sacristy, containing a stone altar, nave, Decorated north transept, north and south porches and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells:

the chancel retains the remains of sedilia and an aumbry:

the font is Transition Norman:

near the south porch stands an interesting churchyard cross, and the wall inclosing the churchyard is coped in part with tombstones, one of which has a finely carved floriated cross:

there are 300 sittings"

DB 13 July 2020

Westborough, All Saints, Church
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The Church (All Saints) is an interesting fabric of the tihirteenth century, with a western tower, and in its burial ground is the pedestal of an ancient cross.

The rectory is in two medieties.

The first mediety is an impropriation, with the vicarage of Dry-Doddington annexed, valued in K.B. at £10. 10s. 10d., and now at £76.

The second mediety is tile rectory of Westborough-with-Shefford, valued in K.B. at £20, and now at £477.

The Rev. Robert Hall. LL.B., is impropriator, patron, and incumbent of both medieties, and has a commodious Rectory House, and 341.A. 2R. 34P. of glebe in Westborough, and 29A. 1R. 10P. in Dry-Doddington"

DB 13 July 2020

Westborough, All Saints, Church
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints

"Parish church. C11, c.1190, late C13, C14, C15, C17, 1749-52 restored in 1811, C19, 1951"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253495 

DB 13 July 2020

Westborough, All Saints, Church
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints
Westborough, All Saints

Pevsner states "All Saints, w tower, nave and aisles, n transept and chancel. Aesthetically a delightful mixture of centuries and styles. Simple plastered interior with clear glass in the windows"

DB 13 July 2020

Westborough, All Saints, Church
Westborough, All Saints, bench end
Westborough, All Saints, bench end
Westborough, All Saints, bench end

A bench end in the chancel showing the Devil licking the back of someone at prayer.

Mark Acton, 2016

Westborough, All Saints, bench end
Westborough, All Saints, Chancel
Westborough, All Saints, Chancel
Westborough, All Saints, Chancel

Window in the south wall of the chancel.

August 2011

Westborough, All Saints church, window
Westborough, All Saints, Churchyard Cross
Westborough, All Saints, Churchyard Cross
Westborough, All Saints, Churchyard Cross

"Cross. C15 ... Shaft and octagonal knop intact"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253496 

DB 13 July 2020

Westborough, All Saints, Churchyard
Westborough, All Saints, North Porch
Westborough, All Saints, North Porch
Westborough, All Saints, North Porch

"North porch of irregular blocks of ashlar, blue lias and earlyC19 brick with dentillated eaves, plain segmental headed archway, coped gable and slate roof"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253495 

DB 13 July 2020

Westborough, All Saints, Church, porch
Westborough, All Saints, South Porch
Westborough, All Saints, South Porch
Westborough, All Saints, South Porch

"Original pitch of south porch roof visible with moulded eaves above.

C15 porch with moulded plinth and the diagonal buttresses cut off by present, lower roof level"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253495 

DB 13 July 2020

Westborough, All Saints, Church, porch
Westborough, All Saints, wall painting
Westborough, All Saints, wall painting
Westborough, All Saints, wall painting

An eighteenth-century painting of Death on the west wall in an arched panel.

Mark Acton, 2016

Westborough, All Saints, wall painting, death
Westborough, All Saints, wall painting
Westborough, All Saints, wall painting
Westborough, All Saints, wall painting

An eighteenth-century painting of Time, complete with scythe and hour-glass, on the west wall in an arched panel.

Mark Acton, 2016



Westborough, All Saints, Wall Painting, time
Westborough, Village Cross
Westborough, Village Cross
Westborough, Village Cross
Westborough, Village Cross
Westborough, Westfield Farm
Westborough, Westfield Farm
Westborough, Westfield Farm
Westborough, Westfield Farm