Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church dating from 1845-8, designed by J L Pearson. It is constructed from coursed oolitic limestone rubble with freestone dressings and has graduated slate roofs. The church is built in the Geometrical style and comprises a three-stage west tower with a broach spire, a four-bay aisled nave with north and south porches, and a two-bay chancel with a north vestry.

The tower has a moulded plinth and angle buttresses extending to the bell stage. It features a lancet window with geometrical tracery to the ringing chamber. Above is a string course, a pointed two-light belfry opening with geometrical tracery under a hoodmould with face stops, and a parapet with small blank quatrefoils and grotesques at the corners. A broach spire rises above, with two-light lucarnes containing geometrical tracery under gablets topped with poppy-head finials; a cross finial completes the spire. The south aisle has diagonal buttresses and three two-light pointed windows with geometrical tracery under hoodmoulds with face and foliage stops. The south porch has a pointed door under a hoodmould with face stops and a raised coped gable on kneelers embellished with foliage carving, terminating in a cross finial. Four triple lancet windows are set under running hoodmoulds in the clerestory, with a raised coped gable and cross finial on kneelers with gablets above. The chancel has gableted angle buttresses. The central pointed priests’ door is of two moulded orders, with nook-shafts under a running hoodmould and gablet with beast stops. To the left is a large two-light pointed window with geometrical tracery under a hoodmould with carved stops; to the right is a similar, smaller window. The east window is a pointed five-light window with geometrical tracery under a hoodmould with monarch stops. The north side of the church has similar fenestration.

Inside, the north and south arcades consist of four double-chamfered arches rising on alternating cylindrical and octagonal piers. A pointed double-chamfered arch defines the tower opening, and a similarly styled arch marks the transition to the chancel. There is a memorial to Luke Livingstone, who died in 1713, and his wife Elizabeth in the north-east corner of the chancel, consisting of a chest with two panels for inscriptions, supported by pilasters with dosserets under a scrolled pediment containing a coat of arms. A font of octagonal form, displaying sunk quatrefoils and shields with religious emblems and floral bosses, stands near a cylindrical pier ringed with eight marble colonnettes on cushion bases.