Interior view of All Saints church looking towards the chancel, with wooden pews, stone pillars, and hanging oil lamps.

All Saints, Rampton pre 1910

All Saints, Rampton

History of All Saints Church

Listed Building

Parish Church C12, C14 and C15. C19 and C20 restorations. (Historic England)

Oval studio portrait of a man with sideburns, wearing a dark coat and high white collar, centered on a plain light background.

Revd. J. M. Nixson

1861

Joseph Mayer Nixson was appointed curate in charge of Rampton. He lived at Rampton Rectory. He was born in 1821 in Surrey and was educated at Clare College Cambridge, graduating in 1851. He married Amelia Jones Branch. They had five children, Jane (1852-1853, Eliza (1853- ), Charles (1855- ), May Amy (1858- 1949), Mary (1860-1941).

in 1893 he retired from Rampton and moved to St Michael’s Longstanton.

All Saints church in Rampton has a stone tower and thatched roof, with four figures standing by a fence in the foreground.

Rampton church

The photo shows the church interior before restoration.

1934 church roof rethatched

1978 further restoration following drought in 1976

A stone church with a thatched roof and a square tower is set in a grassy yard under a bright blue sky with overhanging trees.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

A weathered stone memorial commemorates the crew of a Vickers Wellington aircraft that crashed in 1941, listing their names.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

Memorial to crew of Vickers Wellington who crashed 31.8.1941 after taking off from Oakington.

The interior wall of All Saints church in Rampton features patches of aged, patterned plasterwork beneath dark wooden beams.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

15th century wall painting of St Christopher

Faint decorative mural paintings on a textured stone wall between two arched church windows with lattice glass panes.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

Interior view of the church nave showing dark wooden roof beams, wooden pews, a central aisle, and a distant altar window.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

15th century queen post nave roof

Framed document listing the names and tenures of rectors, priests-in-charge, and curates of All Saints' Church in Rampton.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

An ornate wooden pulpit with a canopy stands beside a stone pillar draped with a religious banner depicting a robed figure.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

17th century early Jacobean pulpit with carved oak panels

A rectangular wooden table with four turned legs and a low stretcher frame stands on a dark patterned floor near a radiator.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

17th century oak bier

A pale stone effigy of a knight in armour lies horizontally on a rectangular tomb base against a plain wall.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

13th century tomb of de Lisle

A stone niche with a pointed, moulded arched top is set into a plain wall, with part of a cloth-covered table visible below.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

14th century double piscina with fluted basins

Two rectangular stone fragments with carved, textured geometric patterns embedded flush within a cracked, off-white wall.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

12th to 13th century fragments of stone coffin lids

A tall ladder stands against a stone archway in a church interior, with bell ropes suspended before a leaded glass window.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

15th century perpendicular tower arch

Two rectangular stone slabs with weathered carvings are set vertically into a white interior wall above a wooden chair.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

12th to 13th century fragments of stone coffin lids

A stone font with a cylindrical basin and pedestal base sits in a corner, topped with a circular wooden lid and cross mount.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

12th century limestone font

Stained glass in a quatrefoil window shows a figure in ecclesiastical robes standing on a decorated pedestal.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

15th century lady Chapel window, probably Virgin and Child

Incised graffiti marks of overlapping lines and geometric patterns are carved into the textured, light-grey stone wall surface.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

Graffiti in nave, possibly apotropaic

Close-up of weathered stone wall with carved lettering and the date 1613 visible within a faint rectangular border.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

Faint, etched lines on a rough stone surface show a circular, wheel-like design with spokes beneath several vertical marks.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

Drawing etched into a stone wall showing a church building and steeple enclosed by curved lines and vertical hatch marks.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

Close-up of weathered stone surface featuring faint, intersecting incised lines, geometric shapes, and partial letter carvings.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

Close-up view of weathered, incised stone carving depicting a shield-like shape containing an X-shaped cross on a rough surface.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

Stone church with a slate roof and square tower seen from the churchyard with a stone grave border in the foreground.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

A weathered stone tomb with a pointed headstone sits in a grassy, ivy-covered churchyard under the shade of a tree.

All Saints, Rampton (RGL2025)

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