Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building located in Clayton with Frickley. It features a chancel arch from the 12th century, a north aisle from the 13th century, and a tower dating from around 1300, though much of the structure has been altered in the 19th century. The church is constructed of ashlar stone with stone slate roofs.

The west tower has quoins and rectangular slit windows positioned below and above a chamfered string course. The belfry openings are pointed and feature two lights with cusping and a quatrefoil in the spandrel. Below the embattled parapet, which has a cavetto-moulded course and gargoyles, is a recessed octagonal spirelet. The nave includes a diagonal, offset west buttress and a square-headed window to the left. The gabled porch has columned responds leading to a pointed arch, with a quatrefoil above it; the south door is framed by a moulded lancet arch. To the right is a gabled chapel with a large three-light window that has geometrical tracery. The clerestorey features a two-light window flanked by single lights, all of which are chamfered and cusped. The north aisle contains three two-light pointed windows. The chancel has a lean-to vestry with a south door to the left of a rectangular single-light window and a two-light chamfered, mullioned window. The east window, added in the 19th century, has four lights with geometrical tracery and a hoodmould, while the north window has three Tudor-arched lights with a hoodmould. The east gable features triangular copings with a cross base.

Inside, the nave has a pointed door leading into the tower. There is a two-bay north arcade with an octagonal pier, moulded capital, and a double-chamfered arch. A similar 19th-century arch leads to the south chapel. The chancel arch from the 12th century is notable for its responds with single outer and double inner shafts, scalloped capitals, and zig-zag ornament on the step. There is a double-chamfered arch leading into the north chapel, with the inner order resting on moulded corbels. The roofs were replaced in the 19th century. A framed ceramic plaque commemorates William Wright Warde-Aldam of Frickley Hall, who died in 1925, and is located on the north aisle wall. The church also features a medieval octagonal font with a broach-stopped base and a Gothic organ case designed by Sir Ninian Comper.