Church Of All Saints

BARNACRE-WITH-BONDS DELPH LANE SD 54 NW Church of All Saints 5/17 - - II

Church, 1905 by Austin & Paley. Sandstone rubble with red tile roofs. Comprises a west tower, a nave and chancel under a continuous roof, north transeptal organ chamber with vestry, and a south chapel added in 1937. Tower has diagonal buttresses, a north-east stair turret, and a pyramid roof behind a parapet. The bell openings are each of 2 trefoiled lights under a flat head, with inscriptions over. The west window is of 3 round-headed lights under a pointed head with Perpendicular tracery. The doorway, on the north side, is moulded with a pointed arch. The nave and chancel have windows with flat heads and trefoiled lights. The gable wall of the north transept has a cross window, its lower lights blind. To its right the nave has one window of 3 lights and 2 of 2 lights. On the south side the nave has windows of 3 lights and 2 lights. The chapel has 2 3-light windows. The chapel east window is circular with a central quatrefoil and tracery. The chancel east window is of 4 pointed lights under a pointed head with Perpendicular tracery. Inside, the tower arch is pointed and chamfered in 2 orders. The chancel arch is similar, but the inner order has short attached shafts and capitals as responds. The nave roof has king posts rising from tie beams, with curved braces to the principals and with queen struts. Intermediate trusses have arch-braced collars with king posts. The chancel has a barrel roof with a king-post rising from a tie beam to an arch-braced collar. There is a sedile and piscina. A 2-bay arcade opens into the south chapel. The early C20 glass is said to be by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster.

Listing NGR: SD5128446003