Cathedrals and Churches

The tower of All Saints Church Crondall

All Saints Church, Crondall Hampshire Memorial 'Imp' Tablet to John Eager - March 20 1641 From information found it is believed that there are only four of this type of memento mori in England. 'You earthly impes which here behold this picture with your eyes remember the end of mortall men and where their glory lies' IE (probably JE)

All Saints Church, Crondall, Hampshire Stained glass window

All Saints Church, Crondall, Hampshire Stained glass window

All Saints Church, Crondall, Hampshire A coloured glass window in the south aisle, celebrating the new Millenium, containing quotations from the Lord's Prayer designed by students from The Surrey Institute of Art and Design in Farnham, Surrey.

All Saints Church, Crondall, Hampshire Stained glass window

All Saints Church, Crondall, Hampshire Stained glass window

All Saints Church, Crondall, Hampshire Stained glass window

All Saints Church, Crondall, Hampshire Stained glass window

All Saints Church, Crondall, Hampshire Stained glass window

All Saints Church, Crondall, Hampshire Stained glass window

All Saints Church Crondall, Hampshire View of the Nave looking East The font on the left is said to be of Saxon origin.

All Saints Church Crondall, Hampshire View of the Nave looking West.

All Saints Church Crondall, Hampshire The family tombs of the Giffords and Paulets are on either sides of the sanctuary. Sir George Paulet was a commissioner for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s and sixty years later the last of the Giffards became Archbishop of Rheims and crowned Kings of France.

All Saints Church Crondall, Hampshire The family tombs of the Giffords and Paulets are on either sides of the sanctuary. Sir George Paulet was a commissioner for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s and sixty years later the last of the Giffards became Archbishop of Rheims and crowned Kings of France.

All Saints Church Crondall the old graveyard

The Lime tree lined path to the North entrance porch All Saints, Norman Church in Crondall The 12th Century Norman parish church, All Saints, is said to have been called 'The Cathedral of North Hampshire'. It replaced a Saxon church on the same site and the Saxon font remains from that period. The east end of the Nave dates to 1170. The original bell tower was poorly designed for the weight of the bells it housed and by 1657 the whole tower had to be dismantled to prevent its total collapse. In 1659 a new brick tower, modelled on St Matthews in Battersea, was erected at the NE corner of the original structure. Among notable interior features are an ancient brass of 1370, the dogtooth mouldings of the chancel arch and the imposing arcades and foliate capitals of the Nave. To date All Saints has undergone two major restorations, the first in 1847 by the architect Benjamin Ferrey and the second in 1871 under the guidance of Sir George Gilbert Scott. In 1995 the "National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies" (NADFAS) declared All Saints to be one of the finest examples of architecture of its style in the country. The church is said to be haunted by the "Black Angel", a black statue found at the back of the grave yard. The church operates as part of the Parish of Crondall and Ewshot. (extract from Wikipedia)

All Saints Church Crondall the old graveyard, a b&w version created playing around with Nik Silver Effex Pro