Church of All Saints

Church of All Saints

Parish church of the 12th, 14th, 15th centuries and 1629. Built of coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings, Welsh slate and lead roofs. The building comprises a west tower, nave with south aisle, and long chancel with north vestry.

The tower has two unequal stages divided by a string course, with diagonal buttresses set back five times and a battlemented parapet. A projecting staircase wall is positioned to the north. The west door has Perpendicular mouldings and is flanked by 18th-century war memorials. Above it is a three-light window with plain arched lights and Perpendicular tracery, with a small square opening repeated on the north and south sides. The bell openings on each face are two-light with arched lights beneath Y-tracery. The south aisle embraces the south side of the tower and features a two-light west window under a flat head with cusped lights and mouchettes.

The south porch is gabled with a broad chamfered round arch, above which is a stone inscribed "WM 1629" and a sundial. To the right are two two-light windows with flat heads and 19th-century Decorated-style tracery, though the mullions are genuinely 14th-century. Buttresses with two set-offs and similar diagonal buttresses at the angles support the porch, which has a string course and plain parapet. The nave's south side has three-light and two-light windows, with the east window showing Decorated tracery with cusped mouchettes. Three rectangular clerestory windows light the nave, topped by a string course, plain parapet and sundial.

The south side of the chancel contains three two-light windows with 19th-century tracery of two lancet lights with a quatrefoil above, and a priests' doorway between the first two windows from the west. Two string courses and a plain parapet rise above. The chancel's east wall has angle buttresses and a three-light window with early 14th-century tracery.

The north side of the chancel features a 19th-century lean-to vestry with a simple pointed arched doorway to the east and a paired lancet window to the north. To the right is a two-light window possibly with genuine early 14th-century tracery. The nave's north side has two buttresses, two two-light windows with flat heads and cusped lights, and a doorway with wave moulding.

The interior reveals a four-bay south arcade showing that the tower was built within the Norman nave. The west pier is circular with a scalloped capital; the next is circular with an octagonal capital; the third is octagonal with an octagonal capital; the east responds semicircular with a polygonal capital. The round arches have a step and chamfer. A double-chamfered tower arch leads to the chancel. The early 14th-century chancel arch is supported to the north on a free-standing circular 12th-century pier with a scalloped capital. Early 14th-century triple sedilia and piscina with deep fluted drain occupy the south wall of the chancel.

The church contains numerous wall monuments, including examples by Hall of Derby (Edward Cox died 1846, Annie Mosse died 1868, Mary Horsfall died 1862, Thomas Cox died 1842, John Boden died 1840, Anna Palmer died 1840), Lomas of Derby (William Cox died 1900), J.B. Robinson of Derby (Roger and Frances Cox died 1843 and 1853), and a Jacobean-style monument to Dorothy Draper died 1683 in the chancel east. A grander late 17th-century monument stands to the left of the east window.

The reredos contains re-set linenfold panels and flamboyant tracery panels. A 17th-century communion table and 17th or earlier oak chest are present. A tomb recess in the chancel north wall holds an incorrectly assembled monument. The chancel floor is 19th-century tiled. A carved rood beam and cross date to 1934. Deeply carved bench ends in the nave, one dated 1884, survive. The south aisle contains an 18th-century charity board, four boards with religious texts and a royal coat of arms, and an octagonal font, probably 16th-century.