Church Of All Souls

The Church of All Souls, built between 1898 and 1899 by F.P. Oakley, features a tower added in 1908. It is constructed from coursed rock-faced stone and has a slate roof. The church includes a nave with a clerestory, aisles, a north tower, and a porch. The polygonal apse is complemented by a hexagonal vestry to the north and a chapel to the south. The nave and aisles, which have six bays, showcase cusped plate-tracery in a 13th-century style, with 2-light windows in the aisles and 3-light windows in the clerestory. The four-stage tower, positioned outside the aisle, features angled buttresses that transition into diagonal buttresses at the bell stage. The parapet is adorned with blind traceried arcading, and the bell stage includes traceried lancet openings. The three-bay polygonal apse is flanked by diagonal weathered gableted buttresses and has geometrical tracery windows with 2 and 3 lights on each face. The vestry has a pyramidal roof. Inside, the church has brick walls faced with stone dressings. The five-bay double chamfered nave arcade is supported by octagonal columns with plain bold capitals, and the chancel arch features detached shafts. Both the entrance porch and chancel are topped with quadripartite brick vaulting, while the nave roof is a scissor-braced hammer-beam roof with arch braces. The tower was donated by Rathbone Hartley, the first vicar.