Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

This is an Anglican parish church at Burbage, comprising work from multiple periods. The main structure dates from 1854 and 1876, designed by T.H. Wyatt, but incorporates a 15th-century west tower. The building is constructed of flint with interspersed limestone ashlar, with the upper stage of the tower entirely of ashlar. Roofs are slate, pitched low over the nave and aisles but more steeply pitched over the chancel and chapels, with lead covering to the south aisle.

The plan consists of a nave with north aisle and south aisle (added 1876), a south porch, chancel with south lady chapel and balancing north vestries. Windows throughout are of two, three and four lights, employing 19th-century variants of early Perpendicular tracery. A 14th-century window has been reset at the west end of the north aisle, and some 14th-century porch details are retained. The building is buttressed with angle buttresses and sturdy flying buttresses to the east ends of the aisles.

The west tower is short with two stages. A stair tower rises on the north side with an external door. The main west door has a four-centred head and is surmounted by a three-light 15th-century window with casement mouldings. The bell stage has two-light openings. The tower is topped by a crenellated parapet with crocketed pinnacles. The south porch features an arch dying into imposts and a moulded inner door, with 19th-century external framed wooden gates bearing wavy iron spikes.

Interior: The nave is wide and unplastered ashlar. The roof spans four bays with a half bay at the east end, carried on arcades of four chamfered arches springing from octagonal columns. Two-light clerestory windows illuminate the space. A tall tower arch, with a ringing gallery positioned over the entrance porch, separates the nave from the chancel. The chancel arch is wide with a wave-moulded inner order and an applied gilded inscription around the hoodmould. Open traceried panelling overlies timber trusses with a cinquefoiled central arch. Moulded purlins and open rafters are visible. The chancel itself is wide, with an imposing east window and two-bay arcades on each side plus a narrow east bay. It has a tiled floor and a panelled roof on a moulded and brattished wall plate. The lady chapel features a trussed rafter roof and an oculus over its east window. The north chapel has been subdivided into vicar's and choir vestries.

Fittings include a 19th-century octagonal limestone font bowl with inscription and linked cusping, topped by a detached pyramidal oak cover. The pulpit dates from 1854 and is constructed of pine with open two-light arches. A brass eagle lectern and altar rails on iron scrolled brackets are present. Stained glass in the east and south windows is by Powell. The church contains three 19th-century brasses set to nave columns.

Monuments include two wall tablets at the nave's west end. The first is limestone with a shield on a square panel, cornice with draped urn above and table below with flower on apron, but is not legible. The second is a limestone charity memorial dating to the 18th or early 19th century, with an inset white marble tablet, crown over, lightly carved pendants at the sides and a putto on the apron. It commemorates Philip Pearce's donation to the church and the foundation of a school for reading. A Great War memorial in marble within a limestone frame is located in the south aisle. The north aisle contains a white marble tablet with red marble frame, all mounted on black slate by Harrison, commemorating the Hon Anna and Amelia Noel Hill, who died in 1837.

An 18th or early 19th-century oak parochial chest with three locks survives as furniture. A cast iron plaque recording a grant of £465 for rebuilding and designating twelve numbered seats for the poor was originally affixed to the wall on the south side of Blackman's Lane.