Church Of All Saints And Saint Michael

The Church of All Saints and Saint Michael is a parish church built in the 14th century, showcasing a Decorated Perpendicular transitional style. It underwent significant restoration between 1857 and 1858 under the direction of Rev. William Philip Beckett, likely by architect G.E. Pritchett, who also designed the nearby vicarage. The church is constructed from flint with stone dressings and features slated roofs.

The structure includes a west tower, nave, clerestorey, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a chancel. The west tower is the least altered part of the church, made of squared, knapped flint with a stone panelled base and set-off angle buttresses on the west face. It has a west window with two lights, four lancets in the second stage, four two-light belfry windows, and a battlemented parapet. The north and south aisles each contain three straight-headed two-light Perpendicular windows. The south porch is largely from the mid-19th century. The clerestorey features alternating circular and quatrefoil two-light windows. The chancel has three south-facing and one north-facing three-light windows with four-centred arched heads that combine Decorated flowing mouchettes and quatrefoils with lower Perpendicular tracery. The east window, added in 1858, showcases flowing Decorated tracery.

Inside, the church features Perpendicular transitional four-bay north and south nave arcades with octagonal piers and double chamfered arches, as well as semi-octagonal respond piers for the tower and chancel arches. The font is octagonal, originally rectangular, made of stone with simple interlace, beaded interlace, strapwork, a Perpendicular stem, and a 19th-century base. In the tower, beneath the west window, there are three brasses commemorating the Rogerson family, with the earliest dated 1608. The interior also includes a decorated Perpendicular squared-headed tracery roof screen with one central and four side lights. The church has 19th-century roofs, featuring scissors trusses in the nave and chancel, with wall posts and corbels carved by W. Brown of King's Lynn. Additionally, there is much High Victorian stained glass created by Michael O'Connor for the Beckett family of Ingoldisthorpe Manor, installed between 1859 and 1863, including windows in the chancel and tower, as well as the east window, which may have been designed by William Warrington.