Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to the medieval period, with significant restoration work carried out in the 19th century. It comprises a nave, chancel, a south tower, and a north vestry. The church is constructed primarily of flint rubble with stone dressings, and remnants of render on the nave. The roof is continuously slated.

The early 14th-century tower is a three-stage square structure with angle buttresses to the south. The base of the tower serves as a porch, featuring a south doorway with four continuous chamfers, a trefoil-headed niche above the doorway, and a single lancet window above that. The belfry has openings with missing Y-tracery, and the tower is topped with a crenellated parapet rebuilt in random brick.

The nave has a core from the early 13th century, retaining original north and south doorways. Immediately in front of the south doorway is a 2-centre arched opening, contemporary with the tower. The north and south sides of the nave feature three identical windows in Perpendicular style; most of these are renewed in the 19th century, but two on the north side are partly original. The west end of the nave displays 15th-century work, including buttresses with flushwork panels and stone shields, and an enriched doorway with shield-carved spandrels. A late 19th-century four-light window is located at the west end.

The chancel has mainly 19th-century windows in Perpendicular style, although the north west window, with mask label stops, is original. A 19th-century four-light east window incorporates Geometrical tracery. The south side of the chancel contains two enriched 15th-century buttresses similar to those at the west end of the nave, a 15th-century Priest’s doorway, and a low tomb recess at the west end.

Inside, the church features a coupled rafter roof dating from 1870, extending over both the nave and chancel. There is no distinct chancel arch; instead, an arch is formed at the entrance to the chancel by a pair of 19th-century timber braces resting on angel corbels. The chancel windows have hoodmoulds with mutilated carved stops, and the splays of the nave windows have moulded surrounds. A rood stair is situated in the north east of the nave. The south east chancel contains a cusped ogee piscina and an adjacent drop-sill sedilia. The 15th-century octagonal font retains well-preserved carving, with alternating lions and shield-bearing angels on the bowl panels. The pulpit has restored early 17th-century carved panels and a bracketed bookboard. Remaining features include seating and a reredos from around 1870. In the north nave doorway are the Arms of George IV dated 1822. Two brass inscriptions (dated 1599 and 1610) commemorating members of the Grimston family of Rishangles Lodge have been re-set in the nave walls.