Heritage30 minutes to an hour
All Saints' Church
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About
The parish church on the hill above the Square, with the spire you see from everywhere in town. The church's own history page says the earliest church here was Anglo-Saxon, and that two Anglo-Saxon stone crosses stand in the churchyard, with carved stone fragments in the porch and five ancient stone coffins nearby. William Peverel built a Norman church in 1110, and the great round arches of the west wall survive from it. The Newark, the rebuilt south transept, holds alabaster tombs of the Vernon and Manners families from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The tower and spire were taken down in 1825 and rebuilt from 1839.
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Highlights
- ✓Two Anglo-Saxon crosses in the churchyard
- ✓Carved stones in the porch
- ✓Norman arches in the west wall
- ✓Vernon and Manners alabaster tombs
Tips
- →Open 9am to 5pm in spring and summer and 9am to 4pm in autumn and winter, per the church's visiting page.
- →It is a working parish church: visits pause during services.
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