Relhan Collection : 305 Teversham church. S view

Relhan, Richard, 1782-1844

Relhan Collection

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>All Saints church dates from the C13 and was altered and improved in C14 and C15. The early C15 tower is typically East Anglian in style with its stepped battlements and, together with the fish-eye C14 clerestory windows, is carefully detailed in Relhan’s drawings. The steeply pitched medieval roof of the nave has survived the C15 and later alterations and also those of the restorations of 1861-2 by T Jeckyll, in repairing the chancel, and 1888 by<i></i>JP St Aubyn when, as Bell says, ‘<i>the church was ruthlessly restored apparently in 1882 and again 1888-1891.’There was an earlier restoration in 1863 (arcade against E wall)’. </i>The details of windows from Relhan’s drawings seem to be repeated in the C19 restorations; the most obvious change is in the rendered chancel walls. The E end of N aisle was the lady chapel where the alabaster effigies (<b>309-314</b>) now in the S aisle originally lay. The S side of the chancel is restored, but stonework of windows is original. The building beyond the church is the rectory remodelled by Lawrence Moptyd 1555-7 but by 1782 let to a farmer. The rector, the Revd John Brocklebank, was licensed to be absent. He subsequently built the new house within the same curtilege (<b>318</b>), with the old parsonage retained as outbuildings (now demolished).</p><p>Bell 2013; Bradley and Pevsner 2014; Davis EM pers comm; RCHME 1972</p></p>