Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a Church of 1844-5, built in the Gothic Revival style, and incorporating some reused medieval fragments. It is reputedly designed by Chantrell. The church is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof. The building consists of a three-stage west tower, a four-bay nave with a south porch, and a two-bay, lower, narrower chancel with a north vestry.

The tower has angle buttresses with offsets to the second stage. The first stage has lancet windows to the north, south, and west sides; the west window is taller, all with double-chamfered surrounds, hoodmoulds, and reused medieval head and foliage stops. The second stage features similar lancet windows to the north and south. A chamfered band sits above, followed by a recessed third stage with twin lancet belfry openings to each side, also in double-chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds and foliage stops. A corbel table runs above, leading to a splay-footed spire with lucarnes on each side.

The nave’s south side has buttresses between bays and at the west angle with offsets. The south porch, situated in the second bay, has a pointed-arched opening with a roll-moulded soffit resting on nook-shafts, and a hoodmould with foliate stops, leading to a further similar opening with a boarded door. Pairs of lancet windows define the nave, with shafts between and continuous sill bands, all under hoodmoulds with reused head and foliage stops. A moulded eaves cornice runs along the top, with shaped kneelers and ashlar copings. A bell turret is situated at the east apex.

The chancel’s south side has buttresses with offsets between bays. A pointed plank priest’s door is located in the first bay, within a chamfered surround under a hoodmould with foliate stops, with the plinth extending around the door as an architrave. Otherwise, single lancets are set under hoodmoulds with reused head stops and a moulded sill band. The north side has angle buttresses with offsets to the east, and the vestry to the first bay has similar buttresses, a lancet window to the east side, and shaped kneelers. The east end features three stepped lancets within a double-chamfered surround under a hoodmould with reused head stops, complemented by moulded eaves, shaped kneelers, and ashlar copings culminating in a cross.

Inside, the tower features a quadruple-chamfered pointed arch with moulded capitals. The chancel arch is four-centred and double-chamfered, resting on cylindrical shafts with hollow-moulded capitals and a roll-moulded hood. A C19 arcaded, cylindrical font sits on a columnar plinth. Monuments include two Baroque cartouches in the chancel and a Neoclassical wall monument to William Bethell, d. 1799, by Edmund Foster of Hull. An inscription tablet within the porch reads: “The / FIRST STONE / of this / Church / WAS LAID JULY 1ST 1844 / Consecrated / November / 1845.”