Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church rebuilt between 1845 and 1849 by George Gilbert Scott, with subsequent alterations. Some medieval details were re-used during the rebuilding. The tower was rebuilt in 1873 by Neville, and a vestry was added in 1880. The church is constructed of limestone ashlar with a Westmoreland slate roof, and is in the late 13th-century Gothic style.

The church consists of a five-bay nave with a north aisle, a south porch, and a tower adjoining the south side, and a three-bay chancel with a vestry adjoining the north side. The nave has buttresses, a chamfered plinth, and two-light trefoiled windows with pierced quatrefoils above. The west side has a pair of lancets with a pierced quatrefoil above. The north aisle contains two lancets, two similar two-light trefoiled windows with quatrefoils, and re-set 13th-century trefoiled lancets to the east and west. A corbel table features two carved head spouts, and there is a coped parapet. A gabled timber porch stands on an ashlar plinth.

The four-stage tower has a chamfered plinth, angle buttresses, chamfered string courses, a pointed chamfered door to the first stage, lancets to the second stage, two-light Y-traceried windows to the third stage, similar louvred belfry openings to the top stage, and a clockface of 1893 to the east. A cornice, angle gargoyles, and an embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles are present, topped by a short spire with a wrought-iron finial.

The chancel has a plinth, buttresses, a cill band, and lancets with hoodmoulds. It features a pointed three-light traceried east window.

The interior has an arcade with cylindrical piers, an octagonal east respond, and a carved head corbel west respond, with double-chamfered round arches. The west lancets include nook shafts, moulded arches, and hoodmoulds with carved head stops. A double-chamfered pointed arch leads to the organ chamber/tower on carved head corbels, and a double-chamfered pointed arch to the chancel. A continuous hoodmould runs along the chancel windows, and the east window has nook shafts and a hoodmould with headstops. The south east window features a wooden seat flanked by trefoiled niches cut into the window reveals. A wooden credence shelf is on the north wall, supported by a fine medieval carved head corbel.

Monuments in the chancel include a finely-inscribed marble wall tablet to Rev John Consett of 1783, a marble tablet of 1831 to John Barton and his wife Margaret with arms in relief by Skelton of York, and a large ashlar tablet to John Watson Barton, probably of the late 1840s, with richly-carved Gothic-style ornament by R Brown of London. Original fittings include a carved ashlar pulpit, carved wooden altar rails, and pew ends. Stained glass is also present, with the north aisle east window painted by C E Kempe in 1876. Further details are provided in The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire by N Pevsner and J Harris, published in 1978.