All Saints, Sutton

All Saints is a Grade I parish church on Church Road, Sutton, Bedfordshire, in the Diocese of St Albans and the Benefice of Potton, Sutton and Cockayne Hatley.

Overview

Historic England records thirteenth-century origins, with fourteenth- and fifteenth-century work and some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reworking. The fabric is coursed rubble, mainly cobblestones and ironstone, with ashlar dressings and later ashlar repairs to the tower. The plan is chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south porch and a four-stage fifteenth-century west tower with diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet. The south arcade is thirteenth-century; the north arcade and north aisle (east bay a chapel) are fourteenth-century. A fifteenth-century clerestory has five windows a side. Nave and aisles carry fifteenth-century embattled parapets.

The north aisle keeps a fifteenth-century roof with moulded timbers and bosses. A fifteenth-century rood screen remains, with a pulpit dated 1628 and a sounding board of about 1730 brought from Everton in 1841. The north chapel holds Burgoyne monuments, including the 1604 recumbent effigy of John Burgoyne. A working barrel organ stands on the first floor of the tower. The church is open in daylight hours.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1138081
• Potton Parish Church (benefice)
• British Listed Buildings: Church of All Saints, Sutton