All Saints, Emberton, Buckinghamshire

Description

The parish church of All Saints is a building in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: a new bell was presented in 1899 by Campbell G. Hulton esq.: the tower waa restored in 1914 at a cost of £180: there are piscina and sedilia in the south wall of the chancel: the stained east window, given by the Rev. O. Hulton, is a memorial to Thomas Fletcher esq.: the church also contains eleven other stained windows and a mural brass to John Morden, a former rector, c. 1410: the church was thoroughly restored in 1869: from the resemblance between the churches of Emberton and Olney they are supposed to be the work of the same architect: an organ, the gift of C. M. Tatham esq. was erected in 1899: in 1919 an alabaster figure of an angel, standing on a rosso pedestal, was set up as a memorial to those parishioners who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: there is a tablet in the chancel to the memory of the Rev. George Frederick Sams M.A. who was rector here for 43 years: new oak pews were installed in 1931, some by Kenneth Sams esq. in memory of his father, some by the Rev. C. B. Hulton and his brothers, in memory of Campbell Hulton esq. J.P.; some others in memory of Mrs. G. F. Sams, installed by her children: there are 250 sittings: there is a list of rectors from the year 1219.

Church Records

The parish register of baptisms dates from the year 1659; marriages, 1674; burials, 1673.