Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating from the 14th century, with a 12th-century west tower. It is located in Bacton Edingthorpe. The church is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings, and has a thatched nave roof and pantile chancel roof.

The west tower is circular and three-stage high. It features a cusped lancet window with a square hood and labels on the west side, below which is a brick lancet to the ringing chamber. The octagonal belfry stage, built in the late 14th century, has windows of two lights with mouchettes, square hoods and labels, brick quoins, and repairs to the window mullions. The nave was remodelled in the 14th century, and the chancel in the 19th century. The nave has diagonal corner buttresses and stepped buttresses to the flanks. A gabled south porch is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a double-chamfered arch on circular responds, beneath an arched statuary niche. A brick parapet sits atop kneelers. The wave-moulded inner doorway has a hood mould with head stops, one of which is missing. The 14th-century timber door features overlapping wave and hollow-moulded planks. The porch has blocked side lancets. The south side of the nave has three windows: one of two lights with Y tracery, one of two lights with reticulated tracery, and one of three lights with an ogee arch beneath a depressed arch. A two-light cusped chancel south window is present, and diagonal chancel east buttresses flank a three-light reticulated east window with a gable head of 19th-century brick. There are no north chancel windows. The north side of the nave has three reticulated windows of two or three lights, beneath four-centred arches with hood moulds and labels. A late 12th-century north door has chamfered jambs and a pointed arch on square imposts.

Inside, the tower has a double-chamfered arch with a hood mould. The roof is largely 19th century but retains original tie beams and ashlaring. A 14th-century octagonal font has a panelled stem in the form of two tall trefoiled arches, with a bowl decorated by encircled quatrefoils. A painted mural on the north wall, dating from around 1400, depicts St. Christopher and the Seven Works of Mercy, the scenes intertwined with branches of a tree. An arched rood screen door is set within a cusped and sub-cusped statuary niche, which has a painted surround with fleurons. The mid-14th-century chancel screen has four bays on each side of an ogee opening, with a painted saint in each bay of the dado, positioned above a painted tracery arch (from left to right: St. Bartholomew, St. Andrew, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Barbara, St. James). The pierced tracery head of the screen is supported on circular muntins, and has a moulded top rail. A cusped piscina is in the south nave wall. A panelled reading desk is dated 1587, and a panelled pulpit from 1632 has scrolled brackets rising from an octagonal stem. A 19th-century king post chancel roof is present, and 11 late 16th-century poppyhead bench ends remain.