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 Grade One 

 4/1 

 29/09/1651 

 Church of All Saints, Church Street 

 St. Ives 

 Lead 

 South East 

 Parish church dating from C12, but largely rebuilt between circa 1450 and 1470. Chancel, nave and embracing aisles with perpendicular four bay arcades distinguished by decorated brackets aginst the piers. Late C13 five light, traceried east window in south aisle flanked by niches, and with fine Early English double piscina with dogtooth surround adjacent. North and south porches, and eleaborate west doorway with flanking niches high tower arch and tierceron star vault in the tower. Fine broach steeple set behind battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles. Norman font. Elizabethan pulpit. Organ of 1893 and statues on arcade brackets by Comper. 

 The details are all of C15 unless otherwise described. The chancel 44 ft by 16ft, has a much restored east window of five cinquefoiled light with vertical tracery in a four centred head with moulded reveals and label. In th north wall is a two centred arch of one chamfered order with jambs, probably of C13, the moulded imposts have been cut back. Further east is a narrow archway with splayed jambs and a four-centred head. The two windows are each of three cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a four centred head with a moulded label. Between the windows is a coorway with hollow chamfered jambs and four-entred head it is now blocked, but formerly opened into the now destroyed vestry. The extent of the vestry is indicated by the middle buttresses on the north wall and between them, the outer face is recessed, the upper part of the wall being carried on a stone and tile arch of roughly four centred form. In the south wall are three windows all similar to those in the north wall and all restored. The south doorway has moulded jambs a four centred arch and label. The chancel arch is mostly concealed by the organ, but is two centred and of one moulded order, perhaps of C14 date. The nave 63 ft by 16 ft has north and south arcades of four bays with two centred arches of two moulded orders, the outer continuous, and the inner resting on attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The north west respond incorporated a C12 respond, the lower springers of the arch and part of the capital with a chamfered abacus are visible. East of the north arcade is a shallow recess in the wall and chamfered jambs and two centred head. The clerestorey has five windows on either side. Each of two cinquefoiled lights in a four centred head with moulded reveals and label. The north chapel and aisle 16 ft wide are continuous. In the east wall is a window of three cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a four centred head with a moulded label and carved head stops of bishops, either modern or reset. In the north wall are four window of similar style, but with slightly different tracery and all more or less restored. The reset C14 north doorway has chamfered jambs, two centred arch and a moulded label with head stops. Against the eastern buttress is a round projection with a conical top. In the south wall east of the nave arcade is a blocked lower doorway to the rood loft staircase. It is set in a projection and has moulded jambs and an ogee head, both probably of C14 date. Above the haunch of the east arch of the nave arcade is a segment of stonework possibly part of a former round clerestorey window. In the west wall is a window similar to those in the north wall. The south aisle 17 ft wide has an early C14 window in the east wall of five pointed lights with intersecting tracery and a single quatrefoil in a two centred head with moulded jambs, mullions and label with head stops. In the south wall are four windows similar to those in the north wall of the north aisle. The south doorway has moulded and chamfered jambs and a moulded two centred arch and label with moern head stops. In the west wall is a window similar to those in the south wall. The west tower 13 ft square is one of three stages with moulded plinth and a modern embattled parapet and spire. The east tower arch is two centred and of two moulded orders, the outer is continuous, and the inner springs from attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The north and south arches are similar to the east arch, but spring from the same level as the nave arcades, except that the outer order on the inside is carried up to the same height as the east arch. The partly restored west window is of four cinquefoiled lights with tracery in a two centred arch, with moulded reveals and cusped spandrels outside the arch. The west doorway has moulded jambs and two centred arch with a square headwith traceried spandrels. In the middle of the frieze is a small modern niche, above the head is a frieze of quatrefoiled panels. Flanking the doorway are large niches with moulded pedestals, shafted jambs and modern heads. The ground stage of the tower has a stone vault with moulded ridge, diagonal intermidiate and wall ribs and a round bell way in the middle. The bosses are carved with foliage, two shields with embelms of the passion and a pelican in her piety. The second stage has a square opening in all four walls, but the west opening has a pierced quatrefoil within the square. The bell chamber has in each wall, a pair of coupled windows, each of two cinquefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in a two centred head, the pair having a common square outer head with cusped spandrels and a moulded label. The north prch is of late C15 date but is largely restored. The outer archway is two centred and of two moulded orders. The responds are modern except for the moulded capitals. The side walls each have a modern window. The south porch has a two centred outer archway of two moulded orders with a moulded label and carved stops, one a head, the other defaced. The moulded reponds have attached shafts with moulded capitals and defaced bases. On each side of the archway is a niche with a moulded pedestal, shafted jambs and a bowed cinquefoiled head with crockets. The soffit of the head has a ribbed vault. The side walls of the porch each have a window of two cinquefoiled lights in a four centred head with moulded reveals. The roof of the chancel is low pitched and of eight bays with moulded and cambered tie beams with curved braces. The main timbers are moulded and the wall posts are carved with figures of saints and stand on stone head corbels. The two eastern bays are boarded and panelled and have small carved angel bosses and carved leaves at the angles of the panels. There is an added modern tie beam between the second and third bays and between the fourth and fifth, and a similar but ancient tie beam with carved figures on either side of the central post which is probably resited. The roofs of the north and south aisles are modern but retain some of the old corbels, four in the north and one in the south, carved with heads, an angel and some foliage. On the modern boarding in the bell way in the tower is fixed a carved figure similar to those on the wall posts in the chancel. FITTINGS: Brackets, in the nave on the west faces of the arcade piers are ten moulded brackets, two pairs on the north and three pairs on the south, carved with a) a lions face, b) a dog biting its own tail, c) a ram, d) a bull baited by a dog, e), f), g), and h) foliage, i) and eagle, j) an angel holding a scroll; below corbel i) is a smaller bracket, carved and moulded all of late C15. Brass in nave, a simple cross. Doors in the chancel, the former door to the vestry is of nail studded battens. In the south doorway of two folds and battens with a hollow chamfered frame and fillets planted on forming three panels to each fold, C15 and partly restored. In the west doorway, of battens on trellis framing and of two folds with modern sheeting on the face but incorporating some pieces of tracery and the head of a rabbit, late C15 and restored. Font: C13, with an octagonal bowl with continuous interlacing arcading resting on attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases, a central octagonal stem with four detached octagonal shafts and moulded capitals and bases. Monuments include a headstone to Alice, wife of Thomas Marchal, 1706, east of the north aisle, and panelled table tomb to Friswi Williams, 1630 dated 1657 on the gable. South of the south aisle is a rounded headstone dated 1969. Niches, in the south aisle flanking the east window are two niches one with chamfered jambs, a trefoiled head, amoulded label and mask stops. The other niche is similar, but with an ogee head and label, both ar early C14 and partly restored. Piscinae, early C13, in the south aisle in the south wall of two bays with moulded two centred arches springing from detached shafts with moulded capitals and bases, the capital of the middle shaft is carved with foliage. A common outer order with moulded jambs and round head carved with dogtooth ornament, two octofoil drains. Pulpit of oak is octagonal with panelled sides in two heights with moulded styles and rails, lower panels with enriched arches and side pilasters, upper panels with strap work ornament, continuous book board supported by carved and scrolled brackets, late C16 or early C17. The trumpet stem with moulded ribs and capital to the post, probably earlier and much restored. Recess in the south wall of the south aisle is a recess with rebated jambs and a round head, much restored. In the tower on the west respond of the south arch is a scratching with the date 1652. 

Map showing the general location in St Ives