Church of All Saints and Vergers Farmhouse

The Church of All Saints and Vergers Farmhouse date from the late 12th century, with substantial additions and alterations in the 14th, 15th, 1634 and mid-19th centuries. The church is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings, while the farmhouse incorporates red brick with a pseudo timber-framed upper part. The roofs are covered in plain tiles, with a coped gable to the east, and the farmhouse has a brick gable and lateral stacks.

The church stands to the east, comprising a nave, chancel, and south aisle. The south elevation features a two-storey gabled bay to the right, with brick to the first floor and a rendered gable. A small wooden bellcote sits above. A plainly chamfered round-arched doorway provides access, with a studded plank door. Above is a two-light casement window, and to the left a two-light Perpendicular window with a square head.

The farmhouse is situated to the right, slightly set back from the church. On the ground floor, a large two-light casement window is present. The jettied upper floor has a pseudo timber-framed design with a single two-light gabled half dormer. An entrance bay is set back to the right. The east elevation features a gabled bay to the right, containing a shallowly pointed 14th-century window with cusped ogee tracery. The south side has an external staircase leading to an upper gallery.

The interior of the church reveals the nave and aisle are entirely covered by an upper floor or gallery. The ceiling features finely moulded beams. Stud partitions separate the nave and aisle, and another partition serves as a screen with three-lights on either side of the entrance to the chancel. Box pews occupy the chancel and aisle, while rough, open-seated pews, possibly dating to the 17th century, are in the nave and south aisle. A uniquely positioned 17th-century pulpit, reading desk, and clerk’s pew are located behind the altar. Late 13th-century wall paintings depicting the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity are found on the north wall, having been restored in 1931. A painted text is illegible on the south wall.

A 15th-century octagonal stone font, adorned with shields and carved figures in high relief, stands within the church. It has a solid base, cut away at the angles and featuring colonnettes. A badly worn incised tomb slab leans against the west wall. Fragments of medieval stained glass are embedded within the tracery lights of the north window. The gallery has timber-framed walls and 19th-century tiered pews, beneath a chamfered beamed ceiling. The history of the church is uncertain but may have served as the infirmary and its chapel for the abbey.