Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church dating from the 14th century, with a late 14th-century tower, 15th-century arcades and chancel arch, and significant rebuilding and restoration work undertaken in 1865-66 and 1900. It is a building of group value. The church stands on the north side of High Street in Thornton Dale.

The church is constructed from dressed sandstone on chamfered plinths, with sandstone ashlar for the porch and a stone-flagged roof. It comprises a west tower, a four-bay double-aisled nave, a south porch, and a chancel with a vestry. The four-stage tower has battlements, crocketed pinnacles, and diagonal buttresses with offsets. It features two-light mullion and transom louvred bell openings on each face, set beneath pointed hood-moulds which form an impost band. The west window has three lights with reticulated tracery beneath a pointed hood-mould on corbel heads. The nave has diagonal buttresses. The gabled south porch contains a pointed doorway of two chamfered orders, while a segment-headed north door is also present, both with hood-moulds on corbel heads. Most windows have been rebuilt as two-light openings, with the exception of a single trefoil-headed light to the right of the north door. A continuous hood-mould with labels is a feature. The chancel has a shouldered priest's door to the centre of the south wall, beneath a rebuilt two-light window, with similar windows on either side. A small, ogee-arched window is located to the west, and a diagonal buttress to the east. The rebuilt east window has three lights with reticulated tracery beneath the original pointed hood-mould on corbel heads.

Inside, the tower arch is tall and narrow, featuring two chamfered orders. The north and south arcades have double-chamfered pointed arches on piers with four shafts, roll mouldings, fillets and annulets. The tall, pointed chancel arch has two chamfered orders on half-octagonal piers. A 14th-century piscina and restored sedilia are present in the chancel's south wall, along with a 14th-century cusped and pointed tomb niche containing a sculpted figure of a lady with a crocketed canopy above her head and a dog at her feet; armorial shields suggest she may be Lady Beatrice Hastings. Other monuments include a memorial to John Hill (died 1773) by Fisher of York – a detached urn on a tall, carved pedestal in a trefoil-headed niche – and a wall tablet to Richard Johnson Hill (died 1793). Brass tablets are dedicated to John Porter (died 1686), Jane Porter (died 1705), and Thomas Mason and his wife (both died 1744).