Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

A parish church built in 1839 to the design of W. A. Nicholson, constructed in stock brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roofs with stone coped gables and cross finials.

The church comprises a west tower, nave with south porch, and small chancel. A plinth runs around the entire building. The west tower features a moulded string course and three-stage angle buttresses with gabled set-offs. A western lancet window has nook shafts. The south doorway has a pointed moulded head with a single small shaft on each side and a plank door. Above runs a moulded string course decorated with trefoils on the west and south sides, each containing three small round cusped windows. A clock occupies the north side. A further moulded string course above contains bell openings on all four sides, each comprising a pair of tall lancets with nook shafts and hood moulds running into the string course. An ornate corbel table supports a parapet with four tall corner pinnacles.

The north side of the nave features six narrow two-stage buttresses with gabled set-offs rising above the parapet, alternating with five pairs of lancets with nook shafts and hood moulds. An ornate corbel table sits below the parapet. The lower chancel has a doorway with a pointed double-chamfered head, hood mould and plank door. The east end of the chancel is articulated by small flanking gabled bays to north and south of a central taller gabled bay, defined by two-stage gabled buttresses and pinnacles. The east window comprises three lancets—the central one taller—with nook shafts and hood moulds, flanked on either side by single lancets.

The south side features a low chancel to the east with a pointed doorway having a double-chamfered head and jambs, hood mould and plank door, with a steep gable and parapet above. The south side of the nave has a string course and tall two-stage narrow buttresses with gabled set-offs alternating with three pairs of lancets with nook shafts and hood moulds, corbel table and parapet above. A steeply gabled porch extends further south, featuring a pointed south doorway with a moulded head supported on single narrow shafts, an inner chamfered surround and hood mould. The east side of the porch contains a small lancet. The porch interior has a pointed south doorway with double-chamfered head and jambs, hood mould and plank doors. A weathered fragment of a medieval moulded pier, hollowed out as a piscina, survives within. West of the porch, two narrow buttresses flank a pair of lancets with nook shafts and hood moulds, with corbelling and parapet above.

Internally, a west doorway leading to the tower has a segmental head and broad panelled door, opening onto a staircase to the west gallery. The west gallery, supported on corbels and slender columns, has a panelled front. A tall pointed chancel arch with double-chamfered head is supported on clusters of three filleted shafts with plain moulded capitals painted white and gold. A doorway to the left has a shallow triangular head and panelled door. The nave has a tie-beam roof with curved braces. All windows feature hood moulds with gold-painted ornate label stops; the east window has white and gold nook shafts. The chancel has a panelled dado.

Monuments include one to Richard Blundy (died 1837), a white sepulchre with urn and draperies; one to Barbara Bartholomew (died 1838), a white plaque with urn on a black field; and one to Eliza Wrangham (died 1862), in black and white with cross and palm. An early 19th-century octagonal stone font on a tall pedestal with an ogee hood is present, alongside a 20th-century font. A remnant of a 12th-century round shaft with a crudely cut capital decorated with darts and protruding angles, hollowed out as a piscina, survives. The church contains several 19th- and 20th-century brass plaques and 19th-century pews.