page_title: All Saints Church, Leigh
section_title: The chancel
hierarchical_section_title: All Saints Church, Leigh / The chancel
caption_attribution_description: English: All Saints Chancel, Waterhay, Wiltshire
context_page_description: All Saints Church was built around 1250 at Leigh, north Wiltshire, England, and was originally on a site half a mile to the north of its current location. In 1896, the nave, porch and bell tower were moved from their original location and a new church was built. The chancel and the east gable of the old nave remain in the old churchyard as All Saints Chancel.
context_section_description: All Saints Chancel (the original church) is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.  It was declared redundant on 1 February 1977, and was vested in the Trust on 24 October 1978.
  The chancel is entered through a finely moulded thirteenth century doorway which has a hood-mould resting on a human head and a beast's head.  Inside, on the South wall there is a late thirteenth century window having three stepped lancet lights under one arch.  On the wall of the chancel are 17th-century texts painted on the walls and framed in designs of clouds and scrolls.  The inside sill is carried down a sedilia and in the east jamb there is a piscina for washing communion vessels.
  In 1983 the texts were re-lettered in their original style and we can see the similarity to the decoration of the Colossians text in the Church.
  Genesis CXVII Ver 1.
  I am the Almighty God.  Walk before me and be thou perfect.
caption: All Saints Chancel, Waterhay, now under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
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