Church of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a building of group value, dating back to the 11th century with significant alterations in the 19th century. The western tower and nave are from the 11th century, the arcades from the mid-12th century, and the chancel and south porch were constructed in 1870-1871 by G.E. Street. The church is built of coursed rubble with herringbone work and ashlar, with graduated slate roofs. It comprises a two-stage west tower, a two-bay aisled nave with a westward extension to the south aisle, a south porch, and a two-bay chancel, with a north vestry.

The west tower features a mid-12th century west door of two round orders on nook-shafts with scallop capitals, chevrons to the outer order and a broad roll-moulding to the inner. Above the door is a small oblong window. The belfry openings are square-headed, with two mullioned lights each. The parapet is crenellated. The north wall of the nave has a round-headed, blocked door, flanked to the east and west by three-light pointed windows with reticulated tracery. A round-headed slit window is located on the east wall of the north aisle. The chancel has a plinth and a scroll-moulded sill band, with two two-light pointed windows with quatrefoil plate tracery. The east wall of the chancel contains triple stepped lancets, all under a pointed arch with a continuous narrow chamfer.

Inside, the tower arch is round and unmoulded, resting on roll-moulded imposts. The north and south arcades feature pointed arches with continuous chamfers on virtually flat, scalloped capitals, supported by cylindrical piers with moulded bases. The mid-12th century chancel arch is round-headed, of two orders; the inner order has a double roll-moulding on scalloped capitals, half-cylindrical responds, and carved bases - a swirled pattern to the south, stepped to the north. A Roman carving, in shallow relief depicting the god Mercury, is built into the wall of the west tower in the north aisle. Faint traces of wall-painting remain on the faces of the voussoirs to the 11th-century nave windows. A memorial slab to Roger Wilberfoss of Garrowby, who died in 1532, is located in the north, bearing a black letter inscription and a central coat of arms.