Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating to 1847-9, designed by John Dobson. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with an ashlar plinth, coping, quoins, and dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and finials. A stone spire is also present. The church includes a chancel with a north vestry, a nave with a south aisle, a southwest spire, and a south porch. It is built in the Early English style, with buttresses clasping the corners.

The lower chancel has a quatrefoil in its east gable, above three lancet windows stepped under a continuous dripmould. A sill string runs below three smaller lancet windows on the south elevation. The north vestry has a lancet window in the stepped external chimney of its north gable. A Lombard frieze adorns the chancel and the north nave elevation, which has tall paired lancets with a sill string and continuous dripmould. The south aisle, under a continuous roof, features a south lancet window, paired south lights, and a boarded door within a moulded arch of a gabled porch. The square southwest tower consists of an octagonal second and third stage, the third having shafted angles and lancet belfry openings, topped by a short spire. A clasping northwest buttress rises to a square pinnacle with pyramid coping. Paired west lancets are topped by a large vesica. A contemporary church hall obscures part of the lower west elevation, incorporating a lancet window alongside.

Inside, a south arcade has a hoodstring over chamfered pointed arches on octagonal, moulded capitals of round piers. A high chancel arch contains dogtooth moulding in two orders. There is a west organ gallery and a roof with corbelled wall-posts, a nave with hammerbeam construction, and a chancel roof with braced tiebeams and queen struts. The windows feature flower-ball stopped dripmoulds. Steps lead up to the chancel and sanctuary. Original pews with shaped ends are present, alongside a gothic pulpit. The chancel was refitted in 1926 with panelling, a clergy prayer-desk, and a seat. A World War II font, made of polished limestone with a fluted bowl on a slim pedestal, is also within the church. Stained glass includes potentially original mid-19th century windows in the east, with geometric bands, and high-quality mid-20th century glass in the second pair from the east in the aisle and the first pair from the east on the north side. Alexander Boddy, the vicar from 1886 to 1922, was a founder of the Pentecostal movement.