All Saints, Aston upon Trent, Derbyshire
Description
The church of All Saints is a building of local stone, consisting of chancel with north, aisle or chapel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing a clock and 5 bells; the first three are dated respectively 1590, 1594 and 1661; the remainder were added, one in 1847 and the tenor in 1873: a curious Saxon cross is built into the exterior of the west end of the south aisle: the lower half of the tower is Late Norman, with the exception of one Transition window of the time of Henry II.: the arcades of the nave and those of the chancel aisle, consisting of two arches, exhibit progressive stages of the Early English period: of the same style is the font, consisting of a massive octagonal basin on a large circular pillar with four small detached shafts: the east window in the north aisle and those of the south aisle are Early Decorated, one near the east end having curious ogee headed canopies with interesting carved bosses in the jambs: the three south windows of the chancel are Early Perpendicular: the other windows in the north aisle, the clerestory and the upper stage of the tower, which is embattled and pinnacled, are of a later Perpendicular style: there is a piscina, and the outline of a leper window on the south side of the chancel: in the north aisle of the nave is an altar tomb of alabaster, with the recumbent figures of a man and his wife hand in hand, in the costume of the first half of the 15th century; and there are numerous mural tablets, chiefly to the Holden and Shuttleworth families, and dating from the 17th century to the present time: the east window and seven others are stained: the reredos and pulpit, of Devonshire marble, are beautiful specimens of modern stonework in the Decorated style, and have canopied niches with figures in full relief: the church was restored in 1848 and 1863 and the chancel in 1873 by the late E. A. Holden esq. and the organ was enlarged in March, 1881: there are 320 sittings.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1667.
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Aston-upon-Trent 1667-1812, is available to browse online.