Church Of All Saints

NY 34 NE DALSTON Raughton Head

10/144 CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS formerly listed as Raughton Head Church

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Chapel now Church. East-wall inscription THIS CHAPEL WAS REBUILT A.D.1761, JOHN BEWLEY, CURATE, GEO MARTINDALE, JOHN SANDERSON, CHAPEL WARDENS; also built into east wall the lintel from the earlier chapel inscribed EDW CARLIOL ME CONSECRAVIT JULY 21 1678; additions of 1881, dated by brass plaque on vestry door. Mixed red and calciferous sandstone rubble with red sandstone V-jointed quoins on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; flat roof on tower. Large square west 2-storey tower/porch; 5-bay nave/chancel with north vestry. West entrance in quoined surround with keystone; narrow round-headed window above. Upper part of tower of 1881 with Norman style louvred vents. Semicircular stair turret projects from north wall. Nave/chancel: large C18 leaded windows in round-arched surrounds with keystones. Tripartite east window. 1881 north vestry. Interior: parts of the chancel screen and panelling may be reused wood from box pews. Pulpit made of reused carved oak panel with Latin inscription and M.W. 1628. Carved oak Bishop's seat is dated 1884. Oak panelled chest with initials G.C. and date 1715. Various white marble wall plaques, one to the Reverend Robert Monkhouse of 1822 by Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson. Late C19 and early C20 stained glass. Seating of 1881.

Listing NGR: NY3793145577