Church Of All Hallows

The Church of All Hallows is a church constructed between 1872 and 1876, designed by G.E. Grayson for J. Bibby in memory of his wife. The building is stone with slate roofs. It comprises a nave with aisles, transepts, a west tower (oriented north), a chancel with a north vestry and a south organ loft. A south-east mausoleum serves as the family memorial for the Bibby family. The tower is of Somerset type, featuring angle buttresses, a panelled design, an embattled parapet with pinnacles at the corners and smaller pinnacles along the sides. A west entrance and a four-light west window with late Decorated tracery are present, along with two two-light windows, a three-faced clock, and two two-light bell openings with pierced stone screens. Flanking porches incorporate diagonal buttresses. The four-bay nave features three-light aisle windows with reticulated tracery, and two-light clerestory windows. The transepts have four-light windows, and the chancel has a five-light east window and two north windows. The mausoleum has a diagonal buttress, a parapet with a pinnacle, a cusped arched entrance, and a window with railings.

Inside, the nave arcade consists of five bays, with wider arches leading to the transepts. The chancel's lower walls are faced with marble, with banded upper walls, and a two-bay arcade leads to the organ chamber. A low chancel wall supports a corbelled pulpit, and there are choir stalls. A marble font sits on an octagonal base beneath the tower. The south transept contains a wall monument to J. Bibby (died 1840), depicting a figure of Hope with a profile portrait below, along with a free-standing monument to Mrs. Bibby by Fabiani, originally from the mausoleum. Windows were designed by Morris and Co. using designs by Burne-Jones, with the exception of the north transept’s east window, which was created by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. The west and east windows were installed in 1875-6 (the latter depicting the Adoration of the Lamb). The south transept window (1877) portrays Four Good Men; the north transept window (1880) depicts Four Good Women. The chancel north windows (1881) show Angels. The eight aisle windows (1882-6) illustrate scenes from the Life of Christ. These windows showcase Burne-Jones’s development as a stained-glass designer and form a comprehensive collection, with the cartoons being reused in locations like Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge.