Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

This church at Hutton dates from the early 14th century with 17th-century elements, though it was largely rebuilt in 1873 by the architect George Edmund Street. The walls are constructed of split flint with 14th-century clunch and 19th-century oolitic limestone dressings, with roofs of both peg and clay tiles. The building comprises a rectangular aisled nave with a smaller rectangular chancel, an organ chamber and chapel projecting beyond the nave aisles to the north and south, a meeting room attached to the south chapel, and a small timber-framed belfry rising from the roof at the west end.

On the north elevation, a diagonal buttress marks the corner. A 19th-century two-light window sits under a square head with hood mould, each light having a round head with enclosed ogee tracery, all cusped. Above this rises the small belfry with five angled louvre boards framed around the whole structure with weatherboarding below and a small shingled octagonal spire swept out at the base to match the belfry width. The principal doorway is 14th-century work, featuring a two-centred arch head with moulded jambs and a label with head stops—one original 14th-century and one 19th-century, defaced by weathering. The door itself is 19th-century with chamfered counter-stepped joints between boards and decorative iron strap hinges in a style derived from Romanesque door construction. A timber-framed porch in front stands on flint dwarf walls with four lights to each side having ogee traceried heads. Only some of these heads are original 14th-century work; the rest of the porch is 19th-century, featuring cambered tie-beams, four-centred arched bracing and decorative barge boards. A similar window appears elsewhere on this elevation.

The chancel is entirely 19th-century work, with end buttresses, a half-height string course, and a central priest's doorway with a round-headed tympanum and trefoiled door head similar to the nave's north door. On each side of the doorway is a small quatrefoiled light set within a T-shaped stone surround. Above rise two round stone chimney shafts from the roof pitch. The east end of the chancel is inset with double string courses and a diagonal buttress.

On the south elevation, the nave is similar to the north but lacks a doorway. The chancel's west end has a projecting meeting room with a roof set north-south abutting the chancel chapel. A simple large five-light mullioned rectangular window with small leaded panes and a small lean-to projection sits on the west side. The chancel features recesses (as on the north elevation) with a window containing two trefoiled lights with upper quatrefoil tracery within a two-centred arched label and a diagonal buttress. The east end elevation shows a gable of the nave and aisles with diagonal corner buttresses and a single central two-light window under a lancet head with hood mould and cusped, elaborated ogee tracery. Behind this, to the north, is a timber-framed door porch; to the south, the chancel chapel and meeting room with a central door similar to those on the north elevation, flanked to the north by a two-light window with an ogee head and to the south by a plain casement window with leaded panes. The main east elevation has a central window with triple lights under a two-centred arch with male and female head-stopped labels and geometrical-style tracery, a string course at the window base, and diagonal corner buttresses. The north and south chancel aisles each contain a double lancet window with trefoil-headed lights. To the south is the plain side wall of the meeting room with a string course and angle buttress.

Interior

The nave comprises three bays of clunch with quatrefoil 14th-century piers featuring moulded capitals and bases. The arcade arches are two-centred with wave and chamfered moulding with a slight hollow. The chancel arch is similar. The nave roof spans two bays (not aligned with the arcade below) and abuts the tower frame at the west end. It features crown posts of square section with a fillet on each face that merge with well-carved braces to the collar purlin and soulaces. Ashlar pieces are set above moulded cornices. The central tie-beam carries a four-way braced crown post decorated with cyma, return, and hollow-chamfer mouldings.

The tower frame consists of six slender posts, approximately 0.22 by 0.27 metres, arranged in two lines of three set on sole plates aligned east-west within the west arcade bay. Much has been repaired with renewed plates. Upper X-bracing appears on the sides. The posts are early 17th-century with lamb's-tongue chamfer stops exhibiting the characteristic decoration of an extra nick beyond the stop. The X-bracing is rather irregular, and the posts show waney edges on outer faces. The east face has two two-centred arched braces to the tie-beam above. Rear braced queen posts support a collar that now supports the earlier collar purlin—a reversal of the correct assembly of collar to purlin as found in crown-post systems. The extant belfry tower appears to have been inserted into an earlier system. Side aisle roofs have moulded cornices and ashlar pieces, probably copied from the nave. The north door features an inner glazed 19th-century door porch. Windows in the west and east elevations of both aisles contain stained glass.

The 19th-century chancel spans two bays and opens to the south chapel via a central octagonal pier with arcade arches featuring wave moulding and a scroll-moulded label with head stops. To the east are double sedilia with trefoiled lancet heads and an ogee cinquefoil-headed piscina with a drain set to the front on an attached pier. On the chancel's north side is an arched recess for the organ; to the east is a priest's door with a two-centred head with roll mouldings and a scroll-moulded label. The organ chamber and south chapel both have archways to the nave with heads similar to and copied from the nave arcade. The east window contains stained glass depicting a Crucifixion. An oak screen between the south chapel and meeting room features open cusped lancets with lower panelling and a door. Two altar rails of wood with wrought-iron scroll-work supports are painted red and gold. A simple three-cant pulpit of open ironwork has slender round shafts with cinquefoil-headed panels and a sheet-metal castellated lower band painted red and gold, mounted on a stone base. A cylindrical limestone font bowl contains large fossil crinoids and four inlaid white marble crosses, supported by four columns from an inscribed base.

The church contains five bells; two are inscribed—one dated 1655 and one dated 1637, matching the 17th-century belfry frame. Brasses include one in the south chapel on the south wall depicting a man in plate armour with a woman in a gabled head-dress, with eight sons and eight daughters, dating to the early 16th century; and one on the west wall with an inscription to George White, dated 1584. A monument in the south aisle on the west wall commemorates Thomas Cory (died 1656) and his wife Judith (Clitherow), who died in 1663.