Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church dating primarily from 1866 to 1869, designed by Banks and Barry, constructed on the site of an earlier church incorporating fabric from the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries. It is of group value. The church is built of sandstone ashlar with a stone slate roof. The rebuilding was undertaken in the Gothic Revival style and comprises a west tower, a four-bay nave with a north aisle, a south porch, transepts, a two-bay chancel, and a vestry to the north of the chancel.

The west tower is of three stages, with fabric from the 13th century surviving to the second stage within the 19th-century rebuild. There are 13th-century paired lancet windows with headstops to the west and north faces at the second stage. All other windows date from 1866 to 1869 and are paired lancets below paired round-headed belfry windows. Octagonal corner turrets with pyramidal roofs rise from a plain parapet.

The nave is in a Transitional style with paired round-headed windows. A corbel table features beakheads and abstract designs. The south porch has a round arch with roll mouldings on shafted responds. The 12th-century south door, of four orders, has chevron moulding on scalloped and volute capitals with replaced shafts. The north aisle has 19th-century windows with Reticulated tracery. The north transept features a 19th-century west window with Reticulated tracery, a pair of round-headed north windows, and a large circular window with eight roundels around an octagon. A corbel table is present. The south transept has plain round-headed windows to the east and west, and a group of three round-headed windows to the south, again with a corbel table. The chancel has round-headed windows and a group of three stepped lancets to the east. The vestry has a quatrefoil window to the north and a large chimney to the east.

Inside, the 13th-century tower arch is of three orders with fillets on filletted responds and plain capitals. The 13th-century north arcade is of two orders on 19th-century quadripartite shafts with early 13th-century foliated volute capitals; the respond capitals are 19th-century. The north aisle contains a mural of 1909 designed by C.N. Gray and executed by Gast, and a lean-to ceiling painting designed by Temple Moore. A 15th-century piscina is located in the south wall of the aisle. The south transept has an early 20th-century mural depicting 'The Mission of St Aidan’. The 12th-century chancel arch is of three orders with beads, chevrons, and beakheads on volute interlace and zigzag capitals. Furnishings include a very worn 15th-century brass to a knight and his wife in the tower and a 10th-century hogback with coarse interlace in the south porch.