Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

Church dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, heavily altered in the 19th century. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble, squared and coursed, with ashlar tower and dressings, and has a plain tile roof.

The church comprises a chancel and nave with aisles to the north and south, a vestry and tower positioned to the west. The chancel was rebuilt in the 19th century and consists of one bay. The east window is a 19th-century insertion of three lights in geometrical style with hood mould and carved label stops. A 19th-century vestry adjoins the chancel and nave to the south, featuring a doorway to the east with a pointed head. To the east of the vestry is a three-light chamfered window with intersecting tracery and hood mould. The south wall displays a two-light square-headed window in the Perpendicular style. The plinth to the chancel and vestry is brick with some original stone, and quoins mark the corners with a string course to the east end of the chancel above the window.

The nave extends across two bays. The 19th-century aisle to the south contains two three-light windows with intersecting tracery, hood moulds and label stops, one positioned to the right of the south wall and the other to the west wall. The plinth here has a brick base with stone above. The north aisle dates from the 14th century and features one 19th-century three-light cusped window to the centre of the north wall. Two 19th-century reticulated windows are also present, one of three lights to the east and one of two lights to the west, all with hood moulds and label stops. To the right of the north wall stands a 14th-century blocked opening with an ogee arch and finial. The aisle rests upon a stone plinth and has octagonal buttresses at each corner. The nave clerestory contains two 19th-century two-light square-headed windows to the north and south. All gables—to the chancel, aisles and nave—are coped.

The tower comprises three stages. The west door is a 19th-century plank door within a pointed arch of two orders of Early English shafts. A square hood mould with label stops displays carved mouchette motifs within the spandrels. Small stair turret lights appear to the south of the ground and first stages. The south, north and west of the third stage contain a two-light window with transoms, restored in the 19th century. The tower rests upon a plinth of brick with stone above and has a string course above each stage. The top of the third stage is castellated with diagonal buttresses at each corner, rising in diminishing stages to the top of the third stage.

Interior

The chancel has been heavily restored in the 19th century and features a 19th-century round-headed, double chamfered arch into the vestry to the south. A pointed, double chamfered chancel arch also rests upon moulded corbels. The roof is wood barrel-vaulted.

The two-bay arcades of the nave feature double chamfered arches resting upon polygonal piers with responds to the east and west. The central compound pier in the north arcade has a carved foliage capital. A 15th-century arched brace roof, much restored, is supported on corbels. The south aisle has a 19th-century chamfered arch into the vestry, which itself has a 19th-century tie-beam roof. The north aisle contains a blocked 14th-century arch in the north wall with a braced roof resting upon corbels.

The tower arch in the west wall retains original 15th-century polygonal bases to its piers, though the capital and double chamfered arch were replaced in the 19th century.

Fittings and alterations

All stained glass dates to the 19th century, as do the choirstalls, pulpit and vestry screen. The pews are 20th-century additions. Three memorials are set into the chancel walls, dated 1712, 1809 and 1844. A 19th-century font in Perpendicular style stands in the nave.