Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating to 1839-40, designed by John Carline junior. It is constructed of red Grinshill sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. The church comprises a six-bay nave and chancel unified under a single roof, accompanied by a small west tower. The architectural style is Neo-Norman.

The exterior features a chamfered plinth, pilaster strips dividing the bays, a projecting corbel table with shaped corbels, and high, coped parapeted gable ends adorned with carved grotesques at the feet and a cross at the apex facing east. The south windows have round arches with a cill string, supported by yellow sandstone nook shafts with moulded bases and bell capitals, impost blocks, and returned hoodmoulds. The north side displays simply moulded windows. The east end incorporates flanking pilaster buttresses and a stepped triple chamfered lancet window. The west end features a tall, round-arched window to the left.

The west tower is rectangular, set back to the belfry, and topped with a corbelled plain parapet and weathervane. It has louvred round-arched belfry openings: the two-light openings on the long sides feature quatrefoil plate tracery, a central shaft with a moulded base and cushion capital. A chamfered rectangular window sits on the ground floor to the west side, and a clock is positioned below the belfry opening on the south side. A C20 lean-to vestry is attached in the angle of the tower and nave to the north.

Internally, the church has collar and tie-beam roof trusses with queen posts. A round-arch doorway at the base of the tower provides access to the clock mechanism and the belfry. Early 19th-century raised and fielded wainscot panelling is present. Other fittings are primarily from the late 19th century, including a Gothic reredos, wrought iron altar rails, a chancel screen carved by six local parishioners and presented in 1898 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, a pulpit carved and given in 1900 by Mrs Elizabeth Wright, pews with carved traceried panels, a font given in 1889 with a marble stem and circular bowl with trefoil panels, and an organ with painted pipes. The east window contains stained glass from the late 19th century, and fragments of potentially 18th-century painted glass are incorporated into the south windows, alongside mainly plain diamond-leaded glass. A few early 19th-century memorial tablets are also present.

Historically, Grinshill was a chapelry of Shawbury in 1130, gaining independence as a church by the 17th century. It is suggested that some 17th or 18th-century remains may be incorporated at the base of the tower.