Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church built between 1872 and 1874, with a tower added in 1888 by John Cotton. It features a rock-faced coursed sandstone exterior, a brick interior, and a modern clay tile roof. The church includes a nave, aisles, transepts, and a chancel with an apsed end, all designed in a Transitional/Early English style. The windows are mainly geometric, with the east window consisting of five lights featuring quatrefoils and a large septfoil at the top, which was completely renewed in the 1970s. The foundation stone was laid in 1872. The aisle and clerestorey windows are designed in pairs, differing on either side to create the appearance of multiple building periods. The south transept has a single transcept while the north has a double, each with different window designs; the south features paired lancet lights with a roundel above, while the north has a three-light geometric window with triple quatrefoils. The chancel is adorned with lancet lights that have cusped heads. The three-stage tower has corner buttresses with offsets, paired lancet lights, and a balustraded and pinnacled parapet. Inside, the church has a brick interior with stone arcading and colored bands, a five-bay nave supported by pointed arches with alternating cylindrical and octagonal piers, and an arch-braced collar roof. Original features include ironwork, the font, pulpit, glass, altar, and choir stalls, along with 20th-century choir paneling, furnishings, and an organ. This church is noted for its consistent decorative scheme and is considered a significant work by a local architect.