NHER 7749 (Building record) - All Saints' Church, Weston Longville

June 1978. Visited.
Much conglomerate in walls, and built into font steps very rough crucifixion carving, called Late Saxon by vicar.
Tower is 13th century, Y-tracery bell openings (a steeple fell in 1602).
Decorated chancel with flowing tracery (part renewed 1880) and finely carved sedilia and piscina. Another piscina and aumbry in north wall may be modern.
Nave arcades also 14th century (south arcade apparently built first) and in south wall exterior blocked window probably of this date.
Quatrefoil clerestory with original corbels at its west end exterior, and also on aisle eaves here.
Perpendicular south windows; north windows in Perpendicular style are completely of 1880 but east window of this aisle early Perpendicular.
East window of south aisle was three-light straight-headed, ?17th century, blocked in brick before 1718 (memorial on the inside).
South porch Perpendicular, flushwork, niche over and arms of French merchant adventurers.
Across west end north aisle a great tie beam held in place by huge wooden dowel in nave.
All roofs recent, nave is crownpost.
Stone edged putlog hole in south wall.
Pre-Reformation altar slab replaced on altar from nave 1880.
Font ?13th century, on Purbeck marble shafts.
Perpendicular painted screen.
14th century south door with hinges and lock.
Very fine 14th century (post 1350) Jesse tree wallpainting on north wall, and figure north of chancel arch; traces of another to south.
Rood stair.
Some old stained glass.
Good 17th to 19th century floor tombs. Brass 1533, and brass 1533, and brass plaque ?17th century. 18th century memorials including one to Parson Woodeforde, and a 19th century Gothic Revival one.
Bell 1624.
Good Victorian Edwardian pulpit with curving stair.
Walker organ 1906.
Royal arms of George III pre Irish Union.
One box pew, but original poppyheads noted by (S1) not found amongst copies.
Paten Norwich 1660; tankard, London 1773; paten, London 1807.
The worn tracery replaced in 1880 has been built into the southwest corner of the churchyard wall.
E. Rose (NAU), 14 June 1978.

May 1993.
Drainage works in churchyard observed.
No features of archaeological interest exposed, apart from the presence of a circular brick-lined well in the churchyard south of the nave.
See plan in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 11 May 1993.

January/February 1995.
Pews and wooden flooring lifted, exposing slab partly under main aisle.
See report and sketch plan in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 1 February 1995.

13 July 1993. NLA air photography.
Church visible.
S. Massey (NLA), 8 February 2001.

June 2001.
Foundation exposed in dry area trench.
See note in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 16 July 2001.

There is a sedilia depicting two green men each side of a man carrying foliage according to (S2), who sees it as illustrating Rogation; but (S3) suggests it may represent bringing in the May.
E. Rose (NLA), 10 December 2001.