Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a late 15th-century church with 19th-century additions and alterations, restored in 1871. It is constructed of large coursed gritstone, with hammer-dressed stone on the 19th-century work, and has stone slate roofs. The church comprises a chancel with aisles, a nave with a clerestory and aisles, a south porch, and a west tower. Its architectural style is predominantly Perpendicular, with Decorated influences.

The tower is embattled with offset diagonal buttresses, a clock, and a sundial. It features a pointed-arched west door set in the base, above which is a 3-light traceried window and below, a 2-light window. The top stage is 19th-century, with 2-light belfry openings. Buttresses rise into crockets. The nave has four bays with 2-light aisle windows, largely renewed in the 19th century, and 3-light clerestory windows. A gabled porch is set into the first bay of the aisle. The chancel is lower and narrower, with a lean-to 2-bay south aisle containing 3-light windows. A 5-light late 14th-century window with panel tracery is set within the return wall of the aisle, and a 5-light East window also has panel tracery. The “Ferrand Pew” was added to the north aisle in 1831, in a Gothic Revival style with an embattled parapet and two octagonal chimneys.

Inside, the church has 5-bay Perpendicular arcades with slender octagonal piers, and a wide pointed chancel arch. Two-bay arcades open to the chancel chapels. The roof is a good king-post roof. A chancel screen, elaborately carved in oak, dates from c.1898. A carved pulpit in the Perpendicular style is also present, alongside a pew in the north aisle chapel, dated 1681 and finely carved. This pew was re-pewed c.1899 when the chancel floor was relaid with black and white marble. A notable feature is the pre-Conquest font, which incorporates a Saxon stone. The side of the font is inscribed with three lines of runes of uncertain meaning.

The East window was created by Henry Holiday c.1890, and a north chancel chapel window was designed by Burne Jones for Morris and Co. c.1873. There are several good monuments, including works by Fisher of York, J. Gott (c.1835), Behnes (c.1848), and one to Benjamin Ferrands of St. Ives (c.1830). The church significantly contributes to the townscape of the old village centre of Bingley.