Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church with origins in the 13th century or earlier, with significant additions and alterations made in the early 14th century, a tower built in 1447, and a west porch added in 1842. It was restored in 1842 by Cottingham and again in 1913 by Temple Moore. The church is constructed of coursed cobbles with freestone dressings, incorporates mediaeval brick, and has slate roofs.

The church comprises a west porch, a three-stage west tower, a three-bay nave with embracing aisles and clerestory, a three-bay chancel, and a two-storey north vestry, with a south chapel. The single-storey west porch features buttresses with offsets, and pointed openings on the north, south, and west sides, topped with a coped parapet and a cross finial. The west tower has a moulded plinth and string-courses, buttresses with offsets, a pointed west window with continuous hollow chamfering and Perpendicular tracery, and two-light pointed belfry openings containing cusped Y-tracery. It is topped with a crenellated parapet, originally adorned with eight crocketed pinnacles. The nave has a moulded plinth, buttresses with offsets, and four square-headed windows, each containing three trefoil-headed lights. The clerestory features three pointed windows, also with three trefoil-headed lights. Crenellations run along the parapet. The chancel features a moulded plinth, buttresses with offsets, and a pointed 5-light east window with Perpendicular tracery. The south chapel and south wall of the chancel have pointed 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. The north vestry features a pointed west door with continuous wave mouldings; ogee-headed lights to its first-floor west and north walls; and a three-light square-headed window with reticulated tracery to the east wall, on both the first and second floors. A circular stair turret rises above the vestry's parapet.

Internally, a pointed double-chamfered tower arch, set under a hood-mould with monarch stops, leads to the nave. The north and south arcades, dating from the early to mid-13th century, have circular piers on waterholding bases and pointed double-chamfered arches under hood-moulds with face-stops. Attached shafts are present on the responds. A pointed door with continuous chamfer leads to the north vestry, and above it is a pointed window to the priests’ chamber. A 14th-century piscina features an ogee-headed cusped arch under blank tracery. A 1615 pulpit stands on a raised, moulded base with panelled sides and date panels. Reset mediaeval coloured glass is found in the south-east clerestory window, including an angel with a scroll and a fragment of an inscription commemorating guild members. A chancel screen and rood figures were added by Temple Moore. A wall tablet commemorates Reverend Sir Mark Sykes and his wife, of Sledmere, who died in 1783, and includes a double portrait medallion.