Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

Parish church designed in 1874 by T. G. Jackson, rebuilt in 1907 following a fire. The building is designed in 13th and 14th century styles.

The exterior is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with steep pitched gabled and lean-to Westmorland slate roofs. The porch is timber framed. The building features chamfered plinth and string courses, coped gables with kneelers, and is partly buttressed. It has a single octagonal gable and a single round side wall stack.

The north east tower, nave and chancel are arranged under a continuous roof, with north and south aisles, vestries and a south porch. The tower has three stages with three pairs of corner buttresses and a square corner stair turret. It has two string courses and a cusped eaves band. The first stage contains a door with segmental head to the west. The second stage has a rectangular light on three sides. The third stage has on each side two moulded double lancets with Y tracery and hood moulds. Above sits a squat octagonal broach spire with four lucarnes, each with Y traceried double lancet, a finial and weathercock.

The nave has six bays with a clerestory containing six chamfered lancets on each side. The west end has two gabled flanking buttresses and a moulded central doorway with flanking buttresses and hood mould. Above this is a double lancet flanked by smaller single lancets, all with hood moulds, and above again a triple lancet vent.

The north aisle has two bays with two triple lancets with square headed reveals. Its west end has a single lancet with hood mould. The south aisle has four bays with two buttresses. Its east end has a Geometrical double lancet with hood mould. The south side has to the east two mullioned casements with square headed reveals, and to the west a single lancet with square headed opening. The west end has a lancet with hood mould.

The porch vestry to the south west has a square plan with moulded eaves, coped parapet and a single buttress. Its east side has a double lancet and west side a triple lancet, both with square heads. To the right is a four centred arched doorway. The clergy vestry has similar eaves and parapet plus a string course. Its east side has a triple square headed lancet, and north side has steps to a door with segmental head.

The chancel has three bays with a corner buttress at the east end and a five light Geometrical lancet with sill band, hood mould and foliate imposts. The south side has three buttresses and three cusped double lancets.

The timber framed south porch, dated 1874, has a chamfered rubble plinth. Its close studded sides have arch braces and plaster nogging. The bargeboarded south gable has a doorway with arch brace and iron screen. The interior has pargetting and a plain common rafter roof, with a moulded inner doorway.

The interior nave arcades have three bays with clustered filleted shafts and responds with moulded capitals and bases. The arches are double chamfered and rebated. The principal rafter roof features arch braces. The north and south aisles have lean-to roofs with struts and arch braces. The north aisle contains a 19th century stained glass west window, and its east end has an opening containing organ pipes. The south aisle has a stained glass east window from the early 20th century, a memorial window from 1956, and two other early 20th century windows.

The chancel opening has double arch braces and a tie beam with large angel corbels. The north side has a rebated organ opening with hood mould. The east end has a panelled timber reredos with a canopied central niche. The east window contains late 19th century stained glass probably by T. G. Jackson, with shafts and hood mould linked to blind flanking panels. The south side has a moulded double sedilia.

Fittings include a 12th century drum-shaped font with criss-cross patterns, and a rectangular 12th century style font on an arcaded base from 1909. A square alabaster pulpit with marble panels dates to 1907. There are traceried stalls and desks with iron bookstands, plain oak benches, and painted metal commandment boards in a frame. Two panels containing stained glass paintings from 1817 by Sophia Musters were removed from Colwick Church.

Monuments removed from Annesley Old Church include a brass to William Breton from 1595 showing a shrouded male effigy, a 14th century effigy said to be of Leania de Raines, and a plaster Achievement of Arms of Patricius, 3rd Viscount Chaworth with angel supporters from 1686. Monuments removed from Colwick Church include a Classical marble chest tomb with corniced back panel carrying two life-size figures in Roman dress to John Musters and wife from 1685, a marble wall panel draped and with skull to Sir John Musters from 1689, a D-shaped inscribed pedestal carrying three roundels with cherubs and a seated draped female figure signed 'R. Westmacott R.A., London' to Sophia Musters from 1819, a Classical square marble pedestal with three-quarter size standing female figure to Mary Ann Musters from 1832, and four brasses to the Chaworth-Musters family from the late 19th and 20th centuries.