Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church built around 1846-1849 by architects Weightman and Hadfield. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features graduated slate roofs, showcasing a simplified Decorated style. The church includes a nave with a west steeple, north and south aisles, a south porch, north and south chapels, and a chancel with a north vestry.

The exterior features a large three-stage west tower surrounded by the aisles, which has angle buttresses, a two-centred arched west doorway with two orders of moulding and a trefoil-headed opening. There is also a large two-centred arched four-light west window with elaborate moulding and multifoil tracery, along with two-light belfry windows, corner grotesques, and a tall broach spire with lucarnes. The buttressed five-bay south aisle includes a gabled porch at the second bay with a two-centred arched doorway and a vacant niche above it, as well as two-light windows with cusped lights and varied multifoils in the heads. The chapel to the right of this aisle is gabled and has a three-light window, with all openings featuring hood-moulds with large block stops. The north aisle is similar in design. The five-bay nave has lesenes and corbel tables, with one spherical-triangle clerestory window in each bay. The two-bay chancel has a priest door and windows of one and two lights on the south side, along with a five-light east window.

Inside, there are five-bay aisle arcades supported by low cylindrical piers with moulded annular caps, and two-centred double-chamfered arches with hood-moulds linked by figured stops. The roof is a common-rafter type, and there is an ornate chancel arch. The north side features the Shuttleworth chapel, while the south side has the Dugdale chapel.

The church was funded by the Shuttleworth family of Gawthorpe Hall and the Dugdale family, cotton manufacturers from Lowerhouse, symbolizing the collaboration between landed and industrial wealth. It forms a group with the associated gateway and wall, and its steeple is a prominent feature of the skyline on this side of Burnley.