Church Micro 7874...Radwell
The Church of All Saints in Radwell in Hertfordshire is an Anglican parish church which falls within the Diocese of St Albans. It is a Grade II* listed building having gained that status in 1968. There was probably a church of some sort on the present site since at least 1215 as the first recorded rector in 1218 was Baldricus. This first building was probably mainly of wood but nothing of it survives in the present structure. The present All Saints Church is a small parish church in the Perpendicular style probably dating to the mid 14th century but much restored in the 19th century. The church consists of a chancel 20 ft. by 13 ft. 6 in., a north vestry 14 ft. by 7 ft., the nave 35 ft. by 16 ft. 6 in. and the south porch 8 ft. 6 in. by 8 ft. Constructed of flint and clunch rubble with the cement render removed in places, the chancel arch, window openings and the walls of the nave and chancel are probably mid 14th century in date while the east window (a three light window of about 1500 with decorative late 19th century glass given in 1885) and tower arch date to the early 16th century. The nave was restored in 1875, at which time the pews were added while the chancel was restored in 1882 when the vestry and south porch were added. The short nave does not have an aisle and has only one window in each of the north and south walls. The steeply pitched roof has coped gable parapets while above the west bay of the nave can be seen a bell cot with a small broached copper spire over the timber bell chamber. A pointed arch separates the west bay as if the builders had intended to add a tower. The chancel arch dates to about 1340 and is similar in design to the tower arch but is more finely moulded while the chancel's wagon roof is 19th century. The chancel arch shows traces of a rood screen having been fixed across the archway but this was presumably destroyed centuries ago. The large and undecorated baptismal font is 14th or 15th century in date and has shields carved in the recesses on its shaft. The communion rails are 17th century, with square tapering balusters. The oak pulpit was given as a memorial to Frances Temple Proctor (died 1889), the wife of the rector, the Rev Lovell Proctor and their son Charles who drowned in Bombay Harbour in 1906.
This is a traditional cache and IS at the published coordinates.
The cache is a 5ml tube.