Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

A parish church built in 1863–64 to the designs of Hine & Evans for William Windley. The building is constructed in rockfaced stone and ashlar in contrasting colours with polychrome ashlar bands and dressings. It has plain tile roofs, both hipped and gabled, and is executed in the Gothic Revival style.

The plan comprises an apsidal chancel, chapel and vestry, transepts, a nave with clerestory and aisles, porches, a baptistry, and a west tower with spire.

The exterior features a plinth and coped gables with crosses. Windows throughout have pointed arches with plate tracery and hood moulds. The chancel, a single bay, has a buttressed east end and a renewed parapet. Five east windows of two lights feature blind arcades below them. There are single round windows on each side and a frieze with four quatrefoil windows. A priest's door is positioned in the angle to the south.

The north chapel has a three-light east window. To the south, the vestry has a wheel window to the east with a small two-light window below it, and a three-light window to the south. Both the north and south transepts have a wheel window set within a pointed arch surround and a buttress stack to the south-east.

The clerestory has four traceried window heads on each side and a smaller window head to the east. The aisles, comprising four bays, have three three-light windows and a porch to the west, with a traceried window head in the west end. The gabled porches feature moulded doorways with cast-iron lamp brackets above them and two round windows to the east.

The baptistry, positioned to the north of the tower, is gabled with a three-light window. The west tower has three stages with buttresses and, at the south-west corner, a round stair turret with spire. A large three-light window faces west, above which are two small lancets on each side. The bell stage has enriched three-light openings. An octagonal broach spire rises above, with two tiers of lucarnes.

The interior features mainly roll-moulded arches and main windows with shafts. The chancel has an arch with marble shafts and a polychrome gable, and a pointed arched wagon roof. Arched openings are positioned on the north and south sides. The east end contains a stained glass window dated 1882 and a triptych by Hammersley Ball. A piscina is located to the south. The north chapel has a truss roof and a stained glass east window from 1922 by Ms Howson and Ms Townsend.

The nave features arcades of five bays with round piers and linked hood moulds, an arch braced roof with stone wall shafts on corbels, a double chamfered tower arch, and a stained glass west window. The aisles have arch braced roofs and single stained glass windows, with the north aisle window dated 1927. The north aisle also features a pointed arched west doorway. The transepts have common rafter roofs and double chamfered arches to the east. The north arch contains a traceried wooden screen, while the south arch has a war memorial from approximately 1920 in the form of a reredos and altar.

Original fittings include an arcaded round ashlar font with cover by Harry Gill, an enriched round ashlar pulpit, cross-framed benches, traceried stalls, and a brass eagle lectern. Memorials include a brass dated 1877 to William Windley, the founder, and another brass to his family.