Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

Parish church with a 15th-century west tower and remainder rebuilt in 1865–66 by William Smith. The building is constructed in roughly squared syenite with ashlared limestone for the tower and dressings, and has plain tile roofs. The plan comprises a west tower, north aisle, south porch, chancel, and north vestry.

The exterior displays a continuous plinth with moulded cornices to the coped gables (topped with kneelers and cross finials) on both the nave and chancel. Buttresses with set-offs support the walls throughout. The three-stage tower features three string courses and an embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles and a weathercock. The angle buttresses transition to diagonal buttresses above the first stage. The west elevation of the tower contains a single four-centred arch 2-light window with a hoodmould, whilst the third stage has a chamfered four-centred arch 2-light lowered bell-opening with a hoodmould. The north, south, and east elevations have similar bell-openings. A very small trefoiled window breaks the south elevation at the second stage.

The north aisle's west wall has a single chamfered pointed arch single-light window. Along the north wall from west to east runs a sequence of buttresses alternating with pairs of chamfered trefoiled windows, concluding in a chamfered Caernarvon arch doorway with a plank door leading to the vestry. The east wall has a 2-light window. The south wall of the nave progresses from west to east with a pointed arch single-light window with a hoodmould, followed by the south porch (half-timbered with a barge-boarded gable and double gates, trefoiled openings to east and west, and a roll-moulded pointed arch south doorway with hoodmould and double plank doors), then two further chamfered pointed arch 2-light windows with hoodmoulds separated by a buttress.

The chancel's north wall contains a chamfered pointed arch 2-light window with a hoodmould and a buttress. Along the south wall from west to east runs a chamfered pointed arch 2-light window, a chamfered pointed arch priest's doorway with a hoodmould and plank door, another similar window, and a buttress. The east wall features a chamfered pointed arch 3-light window with a hoodmould, flanked by buttresses.

The interior displays 19th-century polychromatic stonework throughout. A double-chamfered pointed tower arch with responds of capitals and bases opens into the nave. A three-bay north arcade consists of double-chamfered pointed arches on two circular piers with circular bases and capitals decorated with floral motifs; the responds have capitals and bases similarly treated. The chancel arch is double-chamfered and roll-moulded with a hoodmould featuring headstops; the responds stand on corbels with engaged shafts, all with capitals and bases decorated with floral work. The chancel has a continuous sill band with floral decoration at its ends, and the south-east window sill contains a sedile.

The 19th-century furnishings include an 1881 marble and mosaic reredos, altar rails, table, stalls, pews, pulpit, organ, and lectern. A 19th-century drum font stands on four short shafts. The roofs, tiled floors (19th-century polychromatic), and stained glass are all of the 19th century, with the notable exception of the south-west window of the chancel, designed by Charles Elliott in 1890.

Monuments include an oval slate wall memorial to Thomas Grace (died 1742) and a similar memorial to Dorothy Grace (died 1779) on the south wall of the tower. A marble and slate wall memorial to Holled Smith Esq (died 1794), his wife, and three children stands to the right of the tower arch, surmounted by a winged figure of Death scything broken Ionic columns. A brass wall memorial to Thomas Cockerill (died 1862) and his wife appears on the south wall of the nave to the east of the door. Two First World War single wall memorials occupy the west wall of the nave, and two late 19th-century brass wall memorials to Reverend Edward Elmhirst and his wife are set on the south wall of the chancel.