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Tall arched stained glass window in a church, featuring decorative geometric patterns, text, and a central figure on a cross.

Chancel window, All Saints Barrington (RGL 2022)

All Saints, Barrington

History of All Saints

Listed building:

Parish Church. Nave, chancel and north and south aisles, early C13. West tower early C13, C14 and completed C15. North aisle enlarged and clerestorey added late C14. Dressed clunch, and some limestone. Roman cement render to some of the clunch.

A historic stone church with a tall crenellated tower and a clock face, standing in a churchyard under a cloudy sky.

Barrington church (RCHM)

Three wooden panels display a hand-lettered list of the Vicars of Barrington from 1347 to 2011 with dates in red ink.

All Saints Barrington (RGL 2022)

Stained glass window in All Saints, Barrington, featuring Biblical figures with sheep and inscribed Feed My Sheep and Lambs.

All Saints Barrington (RGL 2022)

Two stained-glass panels show haloed figures holding crooks amongst sheep, with memorial text inscribed at the bottom.

All Saints Barrington (RGL 2022)

Stained glass window depicting a woman holding a child on the left and a bearded man holding a large saw on the right.

All Saints Barrington (RGL 2022)

A painted wooden board with an arched top details the history and rules for bell ringers at All Saints church in Barrington.

All Saints Barrington (RGL 2022)

A silver chalice with a lid and a decorative band around the bowl, embossed with text that includes the words FOR THE TOW.

Cup by Thomas Buttell 1569, Barrington Church (RCHM)

A rectangular wooden stand with four turned legs and decorative scalloped trim, set against a plain, mottled wall.

Barrington church bier (RCHM)

A detail of dark stone carved with faint, overlapping medieval script and several deep, intersecting diagonal scratch marks.

Barrington church, late medieval scratching (RCHM)

Black-and-white close-up of a weathered stone monument featuring skulls, cherubs, and symbols of death in low relief.

Barrington church monument 1717 (RCHM)

The interior view looking upward shows the ornate timber hammerbeam roof of a church, featuring curved trusses and stonework.

Barrington church nave (RCHM)

Stone carving of a person with curled hair and a hat, shown from the chest up and integrated into a textured wall surface.

Barrington church corbel late 14th cent. (RCHM)

Close-up of a carved stone corbel depicting a human head with prominent headgear, set against a dark background.

Barrington church corbel late 14th cent. (RCHM)

A 14th-century stone corbel carved as a bearded figure wearing a hood, a beaded collar, and a buttoned tunic.

Barrington church corbel late 14th cent. (RCHM)

A carved stone corbel depicting a grimacing human face with a wide, open mouth and hands resting on its belly.

Barrington church corbel late 14th cent. (RCHM)

Ornate stone-arched church doorway featuring carved columns and double wooden doors with decorative paneling and iron straps.

Barrington church, 13th cent. (RCHM)

A group of fourteen men sit and stand in a garden, most wearing jackets and hats, with some seated on a bench or chairs.

Barrington Village, May 1885

Fifth figure from right on seat is Prince Edward, later Edward VII. Smoking pipe is J K Stephen. On far left is J W Clark, Registrar of University, C V Stanford is lying on grass and on extreme right is H C Goodhart, St John’s College librarian.

Seven people in late Victorian clothing stand on a lawn in front of a brick house covered in climbing ivy and a porch.

Rev E Conybeare and family at Barrington Village c.1890. James, left, became Provost of Southwell, and Alfred, Vice-Provost of Eton.

For Mary Greene’s reminiscences of Barrington and the Conybeares, see her autobiography, The Joy of Remembering.

Black and white printed illustration showing a rectangular chest placed in front of a stained-glass window in a stone wall.

Chest, Barrington Church c.1902

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