Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a former parish church, now serving as an estate church, dating to the early 14th century. It was extensively restored between 1856 and 1858, under the direction of Sir George Gilbert Scott. The church is constructed of ashlar with a shaped tile roof featuring plain tile bands and moulded coped verges.

The building comprises a west tower, a two-bay nave, and a two-bay chancel unified under a single roofline. Diagonal buttresses define the east end and the division between the nave and chancel. The west tower has three stages marked by horizontal strings. It features a restored west door with a roll and fillet moulded pointed arch, a 15th-century window of two cinquefoil-headed lights, a central mullion, and a four-centred arch above. A niche above the window is partially obscured by vegetation. A clock is set into the north side of the second stage, and the belfry has louvred openings with Y-tracery under four-centred arches, culminating in grotesque heads. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet and corner finials. The nave windows are characterised by Y-tracery and hood moulds, while the chancel windows feature two lights with a single reticulation above, beneath a pointed arch and hood moulds terminating in sculpted heads. The east window comprises three trefoil-headed lights, the central one ogeed, with Decorated tracery above and a hood mould terminating in male and female heads. The nave and chancel have a roll and fillet moulded parapet string leading to a moulded coped parapet, with a foliated hollow beneath the string and gargoyles at intervals.

Inside, the tower arch is pointed. The nave roof is constructed of arch braced rafters, while the chancel roof is of decorative wooden panels. A piscina, probably from the 18th century, incorporates a projecting bowl resting on a bust. The church contains a mid-to-late 19th-century font, its pedestal surrounded by marble alcoves with naturalistic, foliated capitals, the bowl having a quatrefoil recess and foliage decoration on each side. There is a rood screen dated 1855, designed by Scott, with three openwork panels to each side of a central ogee arch, elaborately carved with foliage. Choir stalls, also by Scott, are carved with foliage. A mid-to-late 19th-century wooden pulpit has a stone base and steps, ornately carved with foliage and twisted colonettes with foliated capitals. A palimpsest brass originally commemorated William Lord Zouche (died 1447) and his wife Alice (Seymour), but was altered to a memorial for Sir Humphrey Okeover (died 1538). A marble memorial to Leak and Mary Okeover (died 1765 and 1764) is surmounted by an angel holding a wreath and a torch, resting on an urn with superimposed profiles of a man and woman on the base. Stained glass from the 14th century remains in the east window, and a south-east nave window was created by Warrington in 1857.