Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-copper-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of All Saints, B6260, Orton, Westmorland and Furness, CA10 3RJ
- OS grid reference
- NY 622 083
- Coordinates
- 54.46952, -2.58453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church with origins dating back to the late 12th century. The chancel and north nave aisle were rebuilt during a restoration in 1878 by the architectural firm Paley & Austin. The church features stone blocks on a chamfered plinth with stepped buttresses for the nave and tower, while the chancel is constructed of ashlar. The nave and south aisle have a shallow-pitch lead roof, and the north aisle and chancel are covered with graduated slate roofs. The structure includes a west tower, a three-bay nave, and an aisleless chancel. The early 16th-century tower is castellated and consists of three stages. A gabled porch, located in the first bay of the nave on the south side, is dated 1607. The nave aisle windows are characterized by three segment-headed lights beneath hoodmoulds, with the south aisle windows dating from the early 16th century. The church also has a parapet and lancet windows in the chancel.
Inside, the church features arcades with squat, wide pointed arches. A late 12th-century pier and respond in the east bay of the south arcade are remnants of the original crossing. The nave and aisles boast late 15th to early 16th-century roof timbers. An octagonal stone font, dated 1662, bears the initials D.W. and M.O. There is a piscina set in a trefoil-arched recess at the east end of the south aisle. Above the entrance, a panel painted with the Royal Arms from 1695 can be found. The north aisle houses a frame with three bells, one of which was cast around 1530 by John Woolley of Nottingham, while the others are dated 1637. The church also contains good 19th-century stained glass.
Local climate
Church of All Saints sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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