Church Of All Saints

THORNTON DALE HIGH STREET SE 8383 (north side) 14/98 (9/18) CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS 10.11.53 II * GV

Church. C14 nave and chancel; late C14 tower; C15 arcades and chancel arch; chancel and vestry rebuilt, nave restored and all windows renewed 1865-66; porch 1900. Restoration by E W Tarn. Dressed sandstone on chamfered plinths; sandstone ashlar porch; stone flagged roof. West tower; 4-bay double-aisled nave, south porch; chancel and vestry. Tower: four stages with battlements, crocketed pinnacles and diagonal buttresses with offsets. Two-light mullion and transom louvred bell openings to each face beneath pointed hood-moulds which form an impost band. 3-light west window with reticulated tracery beneath pointed hood-mould on corbel heads. Nave: has diagonal buttresses with offsets. Gabled south porch contains pointed doorway of two chamfered orders; segment-headed north door, both with hood- moulds on corbel heads. Rebuilt 2-light windows throughout except for a single trefoil-headed light to the right of the north door. Continuous hood-mould with labels. Chancel: rebuilt shouldered priest's door to centre of south wall beneath rebuilt 2-light window with two similar windows on either side. Small ogee-arched window to west, and diagonal buttress to east. Rebuilt east window of three lights with reticulated tracery beneath original pointed hood-mould on corbel heads. Interior: tall narrow tower arch of two chamfered orders. North and south arcades of double chamfered pointed arches on restored piers of four shafts, roll mouldings, fillets and annulets. Tall pointed chancel arch of two chamfered orders on half- octagonal piers. C14 piscina and restored sedilia with C14 corbel heads in chancel south wall. In the chancel north wall a C14 cusped and pointed tomb niche contains the figure of a lady with a crocketed canopy above her head and a dog at her feet. Carved armorial shields on either side suggest she may be Lady Beatrice Hastings. Other monuments include one to John Hill (d1773) by Fisher of York - a detached urn on a tall carved pedestal in a trefoil-headed niche; a wall tablet to Richard Johnson Hill (d1793). Brass tablets to John Porter (d1686), Jane Porter (d1705) and Thomas Mason and his wife (both d1744).

Listing NGR: SE8382783127