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Church of All Saints

A Grade I Listed Building in Nynehead, Somerset

  • Church of All Saints, Nynehead

  • All Saints: red sandstone church, mostly Perpendicular with Victorian additions for the Sanford family

  • All Saints: north transept with rose window extended as the Sanford chapel in 1869

  • All Saints: three-gabled east end; Nynehead Court in the background

  • All Saints: interior with standard Perpendicular piers of four hollows & shafts with capitals, added when south aisle was built in 1410 by John Wyke

  • All Saints: altar & reredos, 1871; communion table, marble & granite reredos with blue central panel of the Ascension

  • All Saints: vaulting from late c15 rood screen; plant trailed cornice is a replacement

  • All Saints: early Perpendicular font, heavily panelled on sides & stem

  • All Saints: heraldic glass from 1638 to 1869 in Sanford Chapel

  • All Saints: mid c15 sculpture of Madonna & Child attributed to Andrea; brought in by Rev'd John Sanford, d.1855

  • All Saints: sculpture of angel attributed to Aristodemo Costoli, 1840

  • All Saints: memorial to Richard Wyke, d.1590; arched plaque recording seventeen children

  • All Saints: monument to Elizabeth Clarke (nee Lottisham), d.1667, erected c.1670 by her husband Edward Clarke of Chipley, d.1679

  • All Saints: Edward Clarke of Chipley, d.1679, in black with a long flowing cloak

  • All Saints: Elizabeth Clarke (nee Lottisham), heiress of Nynehead, d.1667

  • All Saints: inscription from the memorial to Elizabeth Clarke (nee Lottisham), d.1667

  • All Saints: arms from the memorial to Elizabeth Clarke (nee Lottisham), d.1667

  • All Saints: memorial to John Locke, d.1704, philosopher & friend of Edward Clarke; no name or date

  • All Saints: memorial to Richard Wyatt, d,1693, & wife Alice Thurston, d.1732

  • All Saints: memorial to John Sanford, d.1711; Ionic columns & scroll pediment

  • All Saints: memorial to Edward Sanford, d.1718; long Baroque cartouche with weeping cherub head

  • All Saints: memorial to Gustavus Venner, d.1717; alabaster frame with scrolls & skull

  • All Saints: memorial to William Sanford of Nynehead, d.1770, & wife Ann Chichester of Youlston, d.1777

  • All Saints: memorial to John Sanford of Nynehead, d.1779, & wife Jane Anstruther, d.1797

  • All Saints: memorial to William Ayshford Sanford, d.1833; brother of Rev'd John Sanford who erected several of the later Sanford memorials

  • All Saints: memorial to Mary Sanford (nee Marshall of Breague) d.1855, wife of William Ayshford Sanford, d.1833

  • All Saints: memorial to Caroline Anne Sanford (nee Stanhope), d.1853, second wife of Edward Ayshford Sanford

  • All Saints: memorial slab to Martin Sanford of Nynehead, d.1643, & wife Susannah (Sydenham of Combe), d.1661

  • All Saints: memorial slab to Henry Sanford of Nynehead, d.1644, & wife Mary (Ayshford), d.1662

  • All Saints: memorial slab to Eleanor Pike, d.1722; servant to Edward Clarke

  • All Saints: memorial slab to Rev'd John Sanford, d.1855, & wife Eliza Georgina, d.1857

  • All Saints: memorial to Eliza Georgina, d.1857 wife of Rev'd John Sanford, d.1855

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Entry Name: Church of All Saints

Listing Date: 25 January 1956

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1060318

English Heritage Legacy ID: 271007

ID on this website: 101060318

Location: All Saints' Church, Nynehead, Somerset, TA21

County: Somerset

District: Somerset West and Taunton

Civil Parish: Nynehead

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

Church of England Parish: Nynehead

Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells

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