Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a former Chapel of Ease that was dedicated as a Parish Church in 1924. Originally built in 1812, the chancel was added in 1880. The church is constructed of red brick in English bond and features Westmorland and Welsh slate roofs with stone coped gables. It has a timber louvred octagonal cupola topped with a domed lead roof. The building consists of a nave and chancel. At the west end, there is a traceried door with a pointed wicket set under a Tudor pointed arch. The three-bay side walls of the nave have three brick bands at the base and a corbelled eaves. The slightly advanced central bay contains a three-light window under a brick Tudor arch, flanked by single pointed three-light windows. All nave windows feature wooden tracery and leaded lights, and there are lead rainwater hoppers. The later chancel includes a triple lancet east window with an ashlar surround. On the south wall of the nave, there is an ashlar sundial above the central window.

Inside, at the west end, there is a panelled gallery with finely dentillated and fluted friezes and fluted pilasters, supported by slender cast iron columns. The chancel arch is plain and narrow, and the nave features matchboard dado panelling. The fittings include a facetted square pulpit that matches the panelled gallery, which also has its contemporary bench seats. The church displays the Royal Arms and has a 19th-century octagonal font. The Chapel of Ease was built following a subscription raised by the patron and rector of Algakirk to serve the inhabitants of the new settlements formed by the draining of the Fens under the Act of Parliament passed in 1767.