Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating to 1892, designed by Richard Norman Shaw. It is constructed of coursed rusticated Grinshill sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has a plain tile roof with ashlar coped gables. The plan includes a chancel, a three-bay nave with a south aisle, a south-west tower, and a north porch. There’s also a two-bay chancel with a north vestry and a south choir vestry, and a three-stage tower incorporating a south porch.

The chancel has two straight-headed Decorated-style windows with reticulated tracery to both north and south walls, and a large Early Perpendicular-style five-light east window. Angle buttresses are present. Vestries form a substructure to the west end of the chancel, with the wall of the organ loft interrupting the chancel eaves and rising to a raised battlemented parapet. The north wall of the nave has three three-light cusped windows in the Decorated style, also with reticulated tracery. The west window of the nave is of five cusped lancet lights in the Perpendicular style. The south aisle has three similar windows to the chancel, while its west window is in the Decorated style with three cusped lancets and reticulated tracery. The east window of the aisle has two cusped lancets with quatrefoil details. A gabled north porch sits on the north side. The tower has diagonal buttresses on its first stage and a battlemented parapet with a pyramid roof. The upper stage is set back at a high level, with corner pinnacles. A wide pointed archway provides access over two flights of entrance steps to the south door, and a stair turret is located to the west. A simple four-light stone mullioned window is on the south face of the tower. Each face of the bell stage features double louvred windows of two cusped lancets with quatrefoil details.

Inside, the chancel roof is structured with five arched braced trusses, incorporating plain double purlins and a ridge. There are sedilia and a piscina present. The doorways to the vestries exhibit alternating boss carvings covering three intrados bands under a hoodmould with figurative label stops. A pointed chancel arch sits above foliated capitals. The nave roof is constructed with eight trusses similar to the chancel roof. A south arcade comprises three bays with pointed arches on unadorned columns. Oak pews, a pulpit, and doors are by Norman Shaw. A reredos in a medieval Burgundian style was designed by Charles Buckeridge.