Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating from 1871-2, designed by Edward Browning in the 13th-century Geometric style. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, slate roofs, and a lead-covered spire. The church comprises a nave with a clerestory, aisles, a chancel, and a south tower topped with a spire.

The west end features a pair of two-light lancet windows with trefoils above, sharing a common cill and linked hood moulds, flanked by large, stepped buttresses. Above this is a circular sexfoil with a central trefoil. The aisles have single, trefoil-headed lancet windows. The north aisle has deeply dentillated brick eaves and stepped buttresses between its four three-light windows with segmental heads. The clerestory has four circular windows with quatrefoils. A pointed, moulded door provides access to the vestry and organ loft, and the east end of the vestry has a two-light window with a plain circle above. At the east end are three stepped lancets under a common hood. The south side of the chancel displays an ashlar corbel table and a pair of two-light lancets with trefoils. A plainer, similar window is found in the east end of the south aisle. The south aisle mirrors the north, with matching three-light windows and a corresponding clerestory. The three-stage south tower is distinguished by stepped corner buttresses, a plinth, and moulded string courses. Above the corbel table rises a lead broach spire featuring gablettes in the four directions. The tower’s sides have paired lancets with trefoils, single lancets above, and paired openings with mid-wall shafts leading to the belfry stage. The outer south doorway has shafted reveals and a moulded, trefoil head, with a pointed inner door also featuring shafted reveals and a moulded head.

Internally, the nave arcades consist of four bays with ashlar round piers, foliated capitals, and double roll moulded pointed arches. Collared wall shafts support the roof corbels. The west end showcases finely moulded rear arches with a central collared shaft. An arch matching the west end’s design leads from the north aisle to the organ chamber. The tall chancel arch has triple keeled, shafted reveals, foliated capitals, and a roll moulded pointed head. North wall lancets in the chancel include wall shafts and moulded trefoil heads, and a pointed door with a roll moulded surround. Rear arches of the east windows are shafted and moulded. The chancel floor is tiled. The furnishings include a wood-panelled pulpit on a shafted ashlar base and a wrought iron balustrade. A 14th-century octagonal font has crocketed ogee niches to the base and heavily recut angels on the side panels. A 19th-century openwork wooden font cover completes the ensemble. The church was funded entirely by the Reverend Basil Beridge, rector and lord of the manor at Algarkirk.