West Door - Church of All Saints, Tilney All Saints, Norfolk.
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greysman
N 52° 44.199 E 000° 19.270
31U E 319148 N 5846341
The waterways in fenland carried wool to east-coast ports and on to the continent from the uplands of England leading to great wealth which was shown in the great churches of the area including this one at Tilney All Saints.
Waymark Code: WMY18T
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/31/2018
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This late C12th parish church is Grade I listed, the nave and chancel are from this date, the west tower is late C13th and C14th with a spire dated 1428. The nave and chancel aisles were remodelled in the C15th with battlements added 1523-1525. It is built of barnack stone and flint, partly rendered and belongs to a group of fenland churches with very long naves built on land reclaimed from the sea.
The four-stage C13th tower has big polygonal buttresses developing into polygonal corner turrets which terminate above the crenellated parapet in crocketted pinnacles. The upper stages and short recessed stone spire are referred to in bequests dated 1428.
The west doorway, in Decorated style, is of four orders of undercut mouldings below a decorated ogeed hood. It has square pilasters each side surmounted with a pinnacle, and the door is made of timber with iron scroll-work and studded all over.