Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

This parish church dates principally from the 13th and 14th centuries, with the tower built in the 15th century. It was restored in the 19th century, when the south aisle and south porch were rebuilt by R. W. Johnson in 1860. The building is constructed of coursed and squared ironstone and limestone ashlar with limestone dressings and lead roofs.

The church comprises a west tower, nave with clerestory, north aisle, chancel, south aisle, and south porch.

The west tower has three stages. It features a moulded plinth, three chamfered string courses, coved eaves with four gargoyles, and a moulded crenellated parapet with four pinnacles, one topped with a weathercock. Two angle buttresses project from the west face, and two clasping buttresses with engaged shafts to the top stage rise from the east. The first stage contains a cusped double lancet window to the west with hood mould and beast mask stops. The second stage has a single lancet to the south, now overlaid by a clock. The bell stage features a cusped double lancet bell opening to the east with hood mould, and on the remaining faces, a taller paired double lancet bell opening with transom and panel tracery and hood mould.

The north aisle, built in the 14th century, comprises four bays with a plinth and a diagonal buttress to the east. The north side has four buttresses with three setoffs. A blocked 14th-century doorway with hood mould sits to the west, flanked by single Geometrical double lancets. Further east stands a triple lancet with intersecting tracery. The west end has a cusped double lancet with flat head, while the east end has a late 15th-century untraceried double lancet with flat head.

The clerestory, dating from the 14th century, contains three bays. The north side has three squat double lancets with various Decorated tracery. The south side has a central untraceried double lancet flanked on each side by a double lancet with Decorated tracery. All these lancets have hood moulds and stops.

The chancel has three bays with a chamfered plinth and sill band, moulded parapet and gable with cross. The east end features two double gabled angle buttresses with cross finials, and a restored 14th-century triple lancet with Geometrical tracery, hood mould and mask stops. The south side has three full-height double gabled buttresses with cross finials. A central 14th-century ogee double lancet with transom stands between a blocked similar window to the east (bearing a crested memorial tablet of 1840) and a 14th-century doorway with double filleted moulding to the left. Further left is a 14th-century cusped, transomed double lancet, smaller than the central window and set lower. All openings have hood moulds and mask stops.

The south aisle comprises four bays with a moulded plinth and sill band, moulded eaves cornice and crenellated parapet. Two diagonal and two intermediate double gabled buttresses, each with a cusped niche, are topped with pinnacles except for the eastern buttress. The south side has a double lancet with Y tracery and hood mould to the east. The east and west ends have untraceried Perpendicular triple lancets with four centred arched reveals and hood moulds.

The south porch has a sill band, a pair of diagonal buttresses, and coped gable. It contains a double chamfered and rebated doorway with octagonal responds and round shafts and hood mould. The porch interior preserves stone benches and a common rafter roof. The south doorway of the church, dating from the 13th century, is double chamfered and rebated with round shafts and hood mould.

The interior contains a double chamfered and rebated tower arch of 13th-century date with hood mould and mask stops and round responds. A 19th-century traceried screen stands within.

The nave north arcade, dating from the early 13th century, has five bays with the eastern bay blocked. Round piers rest on moulded bases set on square pads. The central pier has a stiff leaf capital, while the remainder have round moulded capitals. Double chamfered and rebated round arches with hood moulds span the bays. The south arcade, dating from around 1300, contains four bays with thinner round piers with round bases and capitals. Double chamfered and rebated pointed arches with hood moulds and mask stops rise above. A 19th-century low pitched roof with moulded arch braces, wall shafts and mask corbels covers the nave.

The north aisle contains three chamfered and rebated tomb recesses and a roof with double arch braces and corbels. The south aisle's north side has a tall blocked pointed opening to the east and a canopied niche at the east end. The south side features a chamfered piscina and two double chamfered tomb recesses to the east, with a similar roof to the north aisle.

The chancel east end has a 20th-century panelled dado and reredos, with a bracket bearing a mask corbel to the right. The south side contains a coved round-headed piscina and a graduated cove-moulded triple sedilia to the east. A low pitched roof with arch braces and corbels decorated with ballflowers covers most of the chancel, with a more elaborate truss to the west featuring struts and traceried spandrels.

Fittings of 1860 comprise pine stalls, desks and benches, a traceried panelled octagonal oak pulpit, and a brass lectern. A 12th-century round font with interlaced arcading survives from an earlier period.

Monuments include a scrolled marble cartouche of 1712, a large pedimented marble tablet with crest of 1734, marble and slate tablets dated 1757 and 1795, and a single 20th-century brass.