Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints in Little Ponton, located off the main street in Stroxton, is a parish church with a history spanning several centuries. The core of the building dates to the 12th century, with 13th-century additions, and the chancel was substantially rebuilt in 1874-5 by Charles Kirk. The church is constructed of squared limestone rubble, with ashlar quoins and dressings, and slate roofs.

The church comprises a three-stage western tower with a saddleback roof, a nave, aisles, a south porch, and a chancel. The tower has shaped brackets, kneelers, a stone coping, and a string course. The belfry stage features three lancet windows with angle shafts and a hood mould. A round-headed light with a hood mould is located on the south side of the ground floor. The west door has a semi-circular head, a moulded hood, and a reset shallow moulded cross in a circle above it, along with an ogee-headed lancet. The north aisle has triple cusped lancets and triple ogee lancets, featuring reset consecration crosses. The vestry contains a pair of lancet windows with sunk quatrelobes. The chancel is distinguished by its corbelled eaves and incorporates triple lancets with plate traceried quatrefoils, a moulded hood, and foliate stops in the east wall. Two lancets are present on the south side of the chancel, the eastern one having a moulded hood with unusual beast stops. A pair of lancets with plate tracery and a 19th-century hood are set into the east wall of the south aisle. In the south wall are two pairs of 19th-century lancets. The 19th-century gabled porch features keeled responds, a moulded head to a pointed outer arch, and a moulded pointed inner doorway dying into the responds. Consecration crosses have been reset throughout the building.

Internally, the late 12th-century two-bay north nave arcades feature circular piers and responds, annular capitals with hobnail decoration, and double-chamfered arches. The south nave arcades have octagonal piers and responds with double-chamfered arches and hood moulds. The early 12th-century tower arch has been reset, incorporating rounded responds with cushion capitals, chamfered imposts, a triple-chamfered arch with a step chamfer, and roll moulding. The 19th-century chancel arch has elaborately moulded collared shafts to reveals, mirroring the rear arch to the east window. A reset 12th-century arch provides access to the vestry from the north wall. Within the chancel are a 19th-century piscina and aumbry. All fittings are 19th-century, including a tub font. A wall tomb in the vestry is dedicated to William Blyth of Stroxton, who died in 1648, and displays shields of arms on its front, a rear panel with an achievement of arms, a cornice, and scrolled brackets. A reset fragment of a 13th-century floriate cross grave slab is set into the west reveal of the east window within the south wall of the chancel.