Church of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to around 1200, with significant additions and alterations in the late 14th century, the 19th century, and a heavy restoration in 1893 by Hodgson Fowler. It is constructed of greenstone rubble blocks, rendered brick, limestone ashlar, and red sandstone dressings, with plain tile, lead, and slate roofs, stone coped gables and cross finials. A 19th-century west bell turret features a rectangular base clad in slate, wooden slatted bell openings, a pyramidal slate roof, a finial, and a weathervane. The church comprises a nave, west bell turret, a south porch, and a chancel. A plinth runs around the entire building. The west front incorporates a 19th-century pointed window with two cusped, ogee-headed lights, panel tracery, and a hood mould, with a slit light above in the gable. A two-stage buttress defines the south aisle’s west front. On the north side of the nave, there is a rectangular west jamb of a blocked doorway, and a pointed 19th-century window with three cusped, ogee-headed lights, flowing tracery, and a three-stage red brick buttress. The mid-19th-century rendered brick chancel has a pointed east window with three pointed, cusped lights, panel tracery, a hood mould, and head label stops. The south side of the nave has a medieval plinth and moulded string course, with two pointed windows, each featuring two ogee-headed, cusped lights and flowing tracery. A gabled 19th-century porch to the west has a pointed doorway with a continuous bowtell moulded surround and hood mould; the inner 19th-century doorway has a pointed head, continuous moulded surround, and plank door. A 14th-century pointed window to the west contains two cusped, ogee-headed lights and flowing tracery. The south arcade, dating from around 1200, has three bays with pointed, double chamfered heads, octagonal piers (one of green sandstone, one of limestone, both with crocket capitals), and the easternmost bay has a hood mould and a single head label stop. The 19th-century chancel arch has a double chamfered head with polygonal corbels. A 14th-century piscina is located to the east of the south doorway. The church has 19th-century roofs. Interior features include 20th-century pews, an altar rail, and an altar. A 15th-century octagonal font has cusped panels containing shields, pedestal panels with tracery, and figures, including angels.