Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints in Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre was built between 1876 and 1877 by E.H. Smales. It is constructed of rockfaced sandstone with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs with red ridge tiles, originally pierced. The church comprises a three-bay nave and south porch, a central tower, a chancel, and a north organ chamber and vestry.

The building’s west front features a pointed two-light window with quatrefoil tracery, a rolled sill moulding with foliate stops, and a flat impost band. A glazed slit window is set into the gable end, and a stack pierces the roof pitch. The gabled porch is partly glazed and partly boarded, containing a flat ogee-arched doorway with the date carved in relief above. To the east of the porch are two windows: one of single cusped lancets and one of triple cusped lancets. The windows on the north side of the nave are similarly styled: two paired lancets and one single. The buttressed tower has lancet bell openings with scallop-edged louvres. A gabled staircase turret projects on the north side behind a pent-roofed vestry. The tower is topped with a steeply hipped roof, finials, and a cross. The south side of the chancel has one trefoil and one quatrefoil light, while the north side has three rectangular windows in the vestry and organ chamber, along with a flat ogee-arched doorway in the east return. The east window is pointed, with three cusped lights beneath quatrefoil tracery, and features an east gable cross. All gables are coped.

Inside, two massive cusped arches are beneath the tower, the west one with a rolled hoodmould on floral stops. A cusped and gabled timber chancel screen separates the nave from the chancel. Numerous tiled wall panels and monuments are present, most notably a monument to Martha McCausland (died 1893) at the west end of the nave. Two original brass candelabra remain in the nave. Several windows are noteworthy, including three in the north wall of the nave, one in the south wall, and one in the south wall of the tower, possibly dating from the mid-19th century and influenced by Alfred Rethel. The east and west windows were likely designed by Powell. The remaining windows are leaded with delicately tinted glass. The roof is arch-braced with king post construction, embattled ties, and quatrefoiled spandrels.