Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church built in 1761 by John Wood, the Younger, of Bath, for Mrs. Elizabeth Parkin of Ravenfield, Yorkshire, and Woolley Manor. It was repaired in 1978. The church is constructed of ashlar stone and features a slate roof behind a coped parapet and a moulded cornice. It presents a classical design with Gothick elements, comprising a nave, a west bell tower, and an apsidal sanctuary. The west gable end serves as the main entrance, featuring a pointed central doorway with an ovolo moulded surround and a studded plank door. Above the doorway is a cusped circular window, and the gable is topped with a pediment. The parapet rises to the bell tower, which has circular lights and is crowned by an octagonal cupola adorned with urns at the corners. The church's body includes Y-tracery windows, with two in the nave and one on the canted exterior of the chancel.

The interior has undergone significant alterations, with fittings dating from the late 19th century and 1903. A notable 18th-century font features a circular bowl on a baluster stem, decorated with foliage. The pointed tower arch leads into the nave, which contains several monuments, including three funeral hatchments. These commemorate Mrs. Charity Wiltshire, who died in 1763, with an inscribed plaque on a coloured marble ground; Mrs. Anne Worgan, who died in 1767, with an inscribed marble plaque and an urn above; and Richard Bendyshe, who died in 1825, marked by an inscribed marble plaque with a sarcophagus above. This church replaced a medieval structure that had fallen into ruin. Mrs. Parkin had previously commissioned a second Gothick building, having engaged John Carr of York to rebuild St. James' Church in Ravenfield, Yorkshire, in a Gothick style in 1756.