Church Of All Saints

LOFTUS GRINKLE LANE NZ 71 NW (west side), Easington. 1/14 Church of All Saints. 20.1.67 G.V. II Church 1888/89, by C. Hodgson Fowler (on plaque in chancel). Chevron-tooled dressed sandstone; Lakeland slate roofs with stone ridge and gable copings and cross finials. Decorated style. Nave with north aisle, chancel, north-east vestry and organ chamber, and west tower. Continuous chamfered plinth. 3-stage tower has 5 steps to double-chamfered south doorway under continuous hoodmould. Tall, pointed west window above square, mullioned window. Vice at north-east angle. Chamfered rectangular bell openings, those to west and east with open-work clock faces. Embattled parapet above coved cornice with watershots. Pyramidal roof has cock weather vane. Nave of 3 bays defined by buttresses between chamfered, pointed windows with curvilinear tracery, hoodmoulds, and sill strings. Similar 2-bay chancel with ogee-headed south doorway. Chamfered rectangular windows in north aisle. Circular window in gable of organ chamber. Interior: tall chamfered tower arch holding panelled doors and glazed screen. Nave plastered, with stone dressings. Double-chamfered pointed north arcade has compound piers with round shafts, moulded capitals and bases, under continuous hoodmould. Chamfered chancel arch has double-chamfered head and short responds on long tapered corbels. Hammerbeam roof with 2 tiers of curved windbraces, and arched braces to hammerposts and collars. Phinted, panelled wagon roof in chancel. Parclose screen in north aisle Lady Chapel, with altar, chairs, bookrests and other furnishings, 1934, by Thompson of Kilburn. Good stained glass in east window, 1892 and in chancel and north aisle by Walter E. Tower, 1907/08. Monument, 1621, to Katheran Conyers, in north wall of tower; tablet with inscription above late C19 basket-arched niche holding cot with sleeping child, on bracketed shelf. Built into south wall of tower, on first floor, are remains of C12 chancel arch of 3 moulded orders: beakhead, hollow-chamfer with pellets, and bobbin, with moulded reveal; and remains of round shafts with carved capitals. Grave cover c.1300, in sanctuary, has foliate cross and stem and metal inscription in Norman French to Robert Bucell. Many fragments of grave covers and carved stones in tower and nave. Broken base of medieval cross, with recumbent tapered shaft, and part of a carved hogback grave cover, outside south-west angle of tower.

Listing NGR: NZ7444118013