Baptismal Font - All Saints' Church, St.Pauls Walden, Hertfordshire. - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

This Grade I listed parish church has probably C12th or C13th walling, there is a window in the south aisle c1300; an early C14th south arcade, north windows to the nave, alterations to the south porch, chancel arch, and details in lower part of tower; C15th upper stage to the tower, clearstorey windows and embattled parapets; early C16th south chapel (the Hoo or Lady Chapel); the chancel remodelled in 1727 for Edward Gilbert of the Bury; the whole church restored 1891-5; north-east vestry added 1901; east window opened 1946; chancel colour scheme 1972 by Raymond Erith; church rooms in the churchyard were linked to the north door in 1973-4.

Built of flint rubble with coursed flint facing and stone dressings, the church consists of a chancel and south chapel, a higher nave with windows at two levels in the north side, a south aisle, a gabled south porch, and a heavy buttressed west tower on the central axis of the whole building, and a small north-east vestry with gabled corner buttresses. The east end and south chapel are plastered. There is a steep red tile roof to the chancel; a slate roof to the nave, hipped to the east; and flatter pitched metal roofs behind the parapets elsewhere. A pyramid slate roof to the church rooms with deep rendered fascia, band of windows and blue brick base buried in ground. The south aisle has five-bays, an open timber roof and a raised plinth three-steps higher at the west end with a stone C15th font of octagonal embattled bowl design with a band of leaf carving, an octagonal panelled shaft and a moulded base. The plinth has a rearward extenstion. The oak cover has an openwork ogee finial.

Words variously from British Listed Buildings, Pevsner's Hertfordshire Buildings, Simon Jenkins' England's Thousand Best Churches, all amended and added to with own on-site observations.

Co-ordinates are for the south porch.

Approximate Age of Artefact: C15th Relevant Website: Not listed

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