Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church, substantially rebuilt between 1863 and 1864. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with Welsh slate roofs featuring stone coped gables and decorative ridge tiles. The church comprises a west steeple, a nave with a north aisle and south porch, a chancel, and a north vestry. A chamfered plinth and cornice run around the building.

The west tower is of two unequal stages, divided by a chamfered stringcourse and clasping buttresses with a single set-off. The upper stage has nook shafts linked at the top by a corbel table. The west face features a two-light window with plate tracery and a circular clock face. A small encircled quatrefoil is set high up to the south, and another circular clock face is present to the north. The tower’s pyramidal ashlar spire has bead mouldings along the angles, with large two-light lucarnes as bell-openings, each with plate tracery. A weather vane sits atop the spire.

The south side of the nave has two buttresses, each with two set-offs. The steeply gabled south porch has buttresses continuing the gable line and a doorway with colonnettes and a roll-moulded arch, leading to latticework double doors. To the left of the porch doorway is a single trefoiled lancet window, and to the right are a three-light and a two-light window, both with plate tracery. The south side of the chancel features a trefoil-headed priests' doorway with roll moulding, a plank door, and flanking two-light windows with bar tracery. A three-light east window with bar tracery completes the south side. The lean-to north vestry has a two-light window of two lancets with a trefoil over. The gabled north aisle has an encircled octofoil east window set high up, with two buttresses and two two-light windows with plate tracery. A similar window is located to the west. The south doorway to the main body of the church also features continuous roll moulding and a pair of plank doors with decorative iron hinges.

Internally, the tower arch is triple-chamfered, with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The three-bay north aisle has circular piers, circular abaci, and double-chamfered arches. The chancel arch has an outer chamfered order and a roll-moulded inner order on semi-circular responds with stiff-leaf capitals. The roofs have arched trusses on corbels, and a scissor-braced roof in the north aisle. A 12th-century tympanum from the earlier church is set into the north aisle’s north wall, incised with two small figures standing left and right, either side of two rows of saltire crosses, and a large cross with chequerboard patterns. Also in the north aisle is a weathered incised slab and a small octagonal font dated 1662, with geometrical patterns around the bowl. The chancel contains richly coloured stained glass from the 1860s and 1870s, and the furnishings are of 20th-century date.