Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church dating from the 14th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 15th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of rubble limestone, originally rendered, and has stone slate roofs. It comprises a nave, a south aisle with an independent roof and porch, a chancel, a west tower, and a north chancel vestry.

The nave, largely of the 14th century, features two 3-light Perpendicular windows on the north side. The south aisle, also 14th century, has 2- and 3-light reticulated windows and seven masks set into the wall, likely salvaged from an earlier corbel table. A sundial is positioned in the south-east corner. The chancel windows are 2-light, square-headed with ogee tracery, with a 19th-century east window. A blocked priest’s door is located on the south side. The west tower has three stages, with a 3-light west window and a small door at its base. Angle buttresses are present, and the bell stage has two-light openings with pierced stone screens. The tower is topped with a quatrefoiled parapet and corner spirelets. A stair tower was added to the north side in 1858. The south porch is of two chamfered orders and contains internal benches. An iron wind vane is fixed to the tower.

The interior of the nave is plastered. A three-bay arcade separates the nave from the south aisle, supported by octagonal columns. The nave features an open roof of the 15th-16th centuries, spanning six and a half bays and adorned with carved bosses. A hollow-moulded arch defines the chancel, with wall brackets alongside. The chancel was largely rebuilt in 1871 and contains an arch leading to the vestry and a timber-panelled vault. A squint provides a view from the nave. The south aisle also possesses an open timber roof with arch braced trussed rafters. A trefoiled piscina, accompanied by a slot for a credence shelf, is also present.

Notable fittings include a limestone font with an intersecting arcaded bowl dating from the 12th century, and a later 16th-century oak panelled pulpit, octagonal in shape and featuring fine ironmongery. Other fittings are from the 19th century, including a curious canopy over the south door (1857) and a Gothic screen to the vestry (1924). The organ is situated under the tower arch. Monuments on the north wall of the nave include a tablet from the 18th century, constructed from white and grey marbles, featuring a panel with a coloured border, a broken pediment with an urn, and an obelisk bearing arms and a crest, dedicated to Ferdinando Askew, died 1783, and his family. Two 19th-century wall tablets, also made of white and grey marbles, commemorate Brian Bewley, died 1849, and Edward Millington, died 1864, in the aisle. Within the vestry is a finely carved reading desk dating from 1862, repurposed as a vestment chest, and an 18th-century chest raised on legs with stretchers.