Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a brick church with stone dressings and a plain tiled roof, dating to 1880 and designed by W.F. Hopkins. It is constructed in the Late 13th century Gothic style. The church comprises a nave, a western bellcote, and a chancel without a structural division. A south porch features an ornately carved timber doorway with traceried spandrels and panels above the entrance arch, the arch itself having plain roll moulding. A blue brick plinth and sill band are visible on the south wall, which is buttressed, with stone dressings to the lancet windows, arranged singly or in pairs, with plain trefoils to the nave and cusped trefoils to the chancel. A taller window marks the junction of the nave and chancel. A central buttress is located in the west wall, set between paired lancet windows with quatrefoil heads, and a bellcote is corbelled out on a stone arch with a quatrefoil light. A projecting coped gable in the north wall incorporates a Decorated window. The chancel roof sweeps over a vestry to the north. There is a Decorated east window.

The church interior is brick with blue brick bands and stone dressings, with painted texts on a dado band and above the south doorway. The roof structure consists of cross-braced trusses with wrought-iron ties; in the chancel, these are further supported by hammer beams, with traceried panels and quatrefoils in the spandrels, and the slope between the trusses is embellished with quatrefoiled wind braces. The chancel features paired hammered coronae. A complete scheme of stained glass by Morris and Company, installed between 1900 and 1925, commemorates the family of Alfred Baldwin and incorporates earlier cartoons by Sir Edward Burne Jones, Ford Maddox Brown, and William Morris. South and north lancet lights each contain a single figure of saints and virtues against a foliate ground. The east window depicts Christ with children in the central light, flanked by St George and St Martin, with small narrative scenes of angels below. The west window displays angels playing musical instruments. The church was endowed by Alfred Baldwin, whose wife was the sister of Lady Burne Jones.