Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church with origins in the 13th century and significant alterations and additions from the 14th and 15th centuries, with some 16th and 17th-century reworking. It is constructed of coursed rubble, primarily cobblestones and ironstone, with ashlar dressings and repairs to the tower. The church comprises a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel, of 13th-century origin, was remodelled in the 14th century. It features a 14th-century three-light pointed-arched east window, with only the central light trefoiled. The north elevation includes a pointed-arched two-light window, and to the east of this is a wide pointed-arched recess containing a small blocked doorway, formerly leading to a north vestry. The south wall has two 2-light segmental-headed windows (19th-century replacements) flanking a small 15th-century four-centred arched doorway and the pointed head of a blocked doorway. A pointed chancel arch connects to the nave.

The nave, also of 13th-century origin, has four-bay pointed-arch arcades on both sides: the north arcade is 14th-century, and the south arcade is 13th-century. A 15th-century clerestory runs along the nave, with five windows per side; the eastern ones are of three lights, and the others of two lights. The north aisle is 14th-century, with the eastern bay forming a north chapel. It contains a three-light pointed-arched east window (reworked in the 15th century), two 16th-century four-centred arched three-light windows on the north elevation (the eastern one blocked), a pointed-arched north doorway, and a 15th-century three-light pointed-arched west window. The south aisle has an east window from the 13th century, a two-light west window, and one three-light and one two-light south windows, all with square heads and replaced mullions and tracery in the 19th century. The nave and aisles have 15th-century embattled parapets.

The south porch is 15th-century, with a pointed archway featuring traceried spandrels and a two-light square-headed window on each side. It has a plain parapet. The west tower, repaired in the 17th century, is four-stage with diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet. The ground stage has a two-light square-headed window to the west, and the bell stage has a pointed-arched two-light window on each side.

Inside, the chancel has a four-centred arched plastered ceiling dated 1764 above the chancel arch. The north aisle retains a 15th-century roof with carved timbers, bosses, and stone corbels. Other roofs date to the 19th century. A 15th-century rood screen has a 19th-century cornice. A variety of pew boxes, dating to the 16th and 17th centuries, are present. A pulpit dated 1628 is accompanied by a sounding board of circa 1730, imported from Everton Church in 1841. A cylindrical font from the 14th century sits on a quatrefoil stem in the north aisle, along with a 14th-century ornamental piscina and sedilia in the chancel. The north chapel contains a monument to John Burgoyne (1604), featuring a recumbent effigy, flanked by columns supporting a pediment with heraldic shields and strapwork ornamentation. A marble wall monument to Sir John Burgoyne (1709), by E. Stanton, resembles a reredos with two mourning cherubs. Another marble wall monument to Sir Roger Burgoyne (1677) incorporates an urn and putti upon a strigillated sarcophagus, below a tablet flanked by drop garlands. The south aisle has a monument to John Symcotte (d.1649) and Elizabeth (d.1646). A working barrel organ is located on the first floor of the tower.