Church of All Saints and churchyard wall, railings and gates

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SD 67 SE 2/5

BURTON IN LONSDALE HIGH STREET (south side) Church of All Saints and churchyard wall, railings and gates

(Formerly listed as Church of All Saints and churchyard wall and railings)

GV II* Parish church. 1868-76 by E.G Paley. Snecked sandstone, slate roof. North porch, nave, north aisle, transceptal south tower, chancel. Early English style.

North porch of wood with tile roof; two-centre head, traceried bargeboards and two-leaf doors. Four bay nave; two two-light windows with two-centre heads and quatrefoils; hoodmoulds; one three-light and one two-light window, both with sexfoils. Four-lights trefoil headed window to north vestry. South transceptal tower of three stages with massive angle buttresses to south west corner and clasping buttresses to south-east. Single-light lancet window in first and second stages of west side, two single-light lancets in belfry with two quatrefoils above; corbel table, splay-footed spire. Chancel has one two-light lancet window with hoodmould and decorated stops to north and south sides. East window: stepped, of three lights with trefoil heads. Two small sexfoil windows above side lights and large nonofoil window above centre light; hoodmould.

Interior: arcade separating nave and north aise has stiff-leafed capitals now blind with c1970 glazed screen. Two-centre chancel arch. Exposed king-post roof to nave, stone quadripartite rib-vaulting to chancel. Piscina to north and two sedilia to south in chancel. Low wall to north of church fronting cross has iron railings of gridiron pattern and low, double iron gates to north porch incorporating two bands of pierced trefoils, with a similarly detailed single iron gate to the low east wall

Listing NGR: SD6511272139