Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating largely from 1869, designed by R J Johnson. A south aisle was added in 1907. It is constructed of snecked limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings, featuring a high-pitched roof of Welsh slate with stone coping to the nave and aisle. The church is built in the Early English style. The building comprises a nave with a south aisle and porch, a chancel with a three-sided apse, and a north transept. The nave and aisle each have two windows of three lights. The south door is set within a chamfered opening between recessed columns on plinths, with a drip mould. There are two buttresses on the aisle. The transept has a two-light window in the gable and a door on the east side, with decorative flower stops to a drip mould. The roof includes a stone cross finial at the west end and an iron finial at the east. Above the chancel is a hexagonal timber bellcote with a Welsh slate spirelet and an iron finial. A chimney is located in the transept gable. Inside, the south arcade consists of two wide bays. There are paintings of the Garden of Gethsemane by J Eadie Read of Newcastle, dating from approximately 1914, in the spandrels. Paintings of Christ on the Cross and Christ in Majesty by Michael Hoare of Folkestone, created in 1967, are located in the apse. A two-light west window, a war memorial designed by L C Evetts of Newcastle in 1948, is also present.