Roman Catholic Church Of All Saints

The Roman Catholic Church of All Saints, built in 1836 by ME Hadfield and TG Weightman for the 12th Duke of Norfolk, is a Neo-classical church located on Church Street in Old Glossop. The church is constructed of millstone grit ashlar with a Welsh slate roof featuring deeply overhanging eaves that create pedimented gables.

The church has a rectangular plan with a nave and an apsidal sanctuary, along with vestries at the rear over a basement. The exterior includes a plinth and a plain entablature. The east entrance front, which is also the ritual west front, features a rusticated ashlar facade adorned with four giant Tuscan Doric pilasters and a central doorway that has six-panel double doors and an overlight set in a moulded ashlar surround with a bracketed hood. On either side of the entrance are single windows with 10-pane casements in moulded ashlar surrounds topped with flat hoods. Above the entrance is a central recessed panel flanked by single 16-pane sash windows in recessed plain surrounds. At the top, within the pediment, is a small circular window with an ashlar surround.

The side elevations each have pairs of giant Tuscan Doric pilasters at either end and five tall windows in shouldered ashlar surrounds, with the western side featuring glazing bar sashes. The west, or ritual east front, has single giant Tuscan Doric pilasters at either end and a small 16-pane sash window to the left. Above this is a small circular window in the pediment with an ashlar surround, and above that, a large ashlar bellcote with a single round arched opening housing a bell, a bracketed cornice, and a cross finial.

Inside, the nave has a coved plaster ceiling and a gallery with an open balustrade supported by large console brackets, accessible via steps in the internal porch. The sanctuary features an elliptical arch flanked by doors leading to the vestries and has a coved plaster ceiling. The furnishings include open-backed nave benches and more elaborate choir stalls with later sanctuary rails. There is also a good set of early 20th-century stained glass windows depicting central figures of saints and martyrs within complex Renaissance surrounds.