Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating primarily to the early 14th century, with a Perpendicular style tower. It was restored in 1865 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The church is constructed of squared uncoursed ironstone and ironstone ashlar, with lead and stone slate roofs. It comprises a chancel with a north vestry, an aisled nave with a clerestory, a south porch, and a west tower. Windows throughout the chancel and aisles feature early 14th-century geometric tracery, with some renewed in the 19th century. The chancel has a four-light east window, while the side walls contain two-light windows. The aisles also have three-light east windows and two-light windows on their side walls. The south porch is a gabled structure with a stone vault supported by a transverse arch with head corbels and tracery motifs. The early 14th-century inner doorway has jamb shafts with bell capitals and a hood with head stops, leading to a medieval studded plank door with its original wicket. A 14th-century north doorway features continuous mouldings. The three-stage west tower has a cornice with gargoyles, a castellated parapet with blind tracery, and a pair of pinnacles at each corner linked to the octagonal spine by flying buttresses. The elaborately carved west doorway has continuous mouldings set with rosettes, flanked by small figures of the Virgin Mary and angel Gabriel, and a square hood with a frieze of angels. Above this is a three-light window with panel tracery, and two traceried bell openings. Inside, the chancel piscina has a cusped arch and gabled hood with head stops. The 14th-century chancel arch was altered in the 19th century. The four-bay nave arcades have quatrefoil piers, arches of two orders, and hoods with head stops. The chancel and nave roofs are of Perpendicular style, featuring stone head corbels and 19th-century painted decoration. A Perpendicular octagonal font is carved with rosettes. The polygonal pulpit also has Perpendicular elements, including blind tracery and 19th-century painted decoration. A Perpendicular chancel screen, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, is also present. The church contains Perpendicular benches. Mosaics at the west ends of the aisles were created by Powell and Son, with the north aisle mosaic designed by Holiday. A significant collection of stained glass is by the William Morris firm, including the east window of the chancel, designed in 1864-5 by William Morris, Philip Mebb, Edward Burne-Jones, and Ford Maddox Brown. Burne-Jones, a friend of the vicar W.C. Buckley, collaborated with Burne-Jones on his memorial window in the chancel.