Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

This is an Anglican parish church at Durrington, predominantly of 12th-century origin with significant later additions and alterations. The main build campaign was in 1851, designed by J.W. Hugall of Pontefract, though the structure retains much earlier fabric.

The exterior is constructed of flint with limestone quoins and dressings, with tiled roofs except for the south aisle which has a lead roof. The 12th-century nave is flanked by 19th-century north and south aisles with pilaster buttresses and round-headed lancet windows. A 13th-century chancel is attached to the east, and the 15th-century west tower is of flint and limestone chequerwork in two stages with angle buttresses and a plain parapet with corner pinnacles. A vestry chapel of modern construction (1973) adjoins the chancel.

The 12th-century south doorcase has been reset into the current south aisle. It features a roll-moulded arch on capitals with leaf mouldings and scale carving in the gable. The north aisle has a two-light east window with a quatrefoil roundel over it, and shouldered east doorways. Fragments of earlier work are reset into the 19th-century walls, including two stepped crosses. The chancel is lit by lancet windows, with a triple lancet to the east. The west tower has a square-headed west door in a casement moulded frame, above which is a three-light window with panelled reveals (the tracery renewed). Single openings light the upper stages.

The interior reveals the building's complex construction history. The nave is of three bays. The south arcade dates to the late 12th century and is constructed of banded green and white stones with round chamfered arches on round columns; one capital is scalloped. The north arcade is a 19th-century rebuild in Early English style. A tall panelled tower arch separates the nave from the tower space. The roof is an open 19th-century rafter roof. The 19th-century chancel arch is carved with large foliage corbels. The chancel itself is of two bays with a stone-flagged floor and arch-braced trusses on 19th-century angel corbels; columns flank the east window. The south aisle contains a broken piscina.

The church contains substantial furnishings and fittings. A 19th-century neo-Norman font has columns at its corners. A freestanding 17th-century carved pulpit features carved evangelists with unusual attributes, alongside a bookstand. Behind the organ is part of a 17th-century carved screen dated 1634, carved with mantled arms and a door. Similar panelling appears on the remade 19th-century pews in the nave and south aisle. The readers' desk incorporates reset 17th-century carved figures representing Faith, Hope (with anchor), and Charity (with two children). The organ is in an oak case by Streetland. The north aisle contains mid-19th-century glass.

The chancel contains nine wall tablets. On the north wall are tablets to George Moore (died 1920, white marble on grey), Elizabeth Moore (died 1825, with arms and putto), Jonathan Moore (died 1818, with shaped pediment and urns), Elizabeth Moore (died 1852, with scalloped frieze), and Thomas Moore (died 1841, pedimented, by Osmund of Sarum). On the south side are tablets to Major Robert Poore, founder of the Winterslow Land Holdings and Land Court in 1892, died 1918 (by Maile of London); Hestor Conham (died 1643, freestanding arms over, with frame, entablature and apron with mantled crest); George Moore (died 1884, white marble on grey sarcophagus with fluted sides, by Osmund); and Charles Snelling Ruddle, rural dean (died 1910). The south aisle contains a white marble tablet on grey to Sarah Fowle of Chute Lodge (died 1901) and a brass with rhyme of 1633 to John Poore, a child aged three.

Furniture includes a 17th-century altar table with framed end and baluster legs, a 17th-century cane-backed chair, and one coffin stool.

A bronze benchmark is present on the building exterior.