Church of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building located in Thorpe Bassett, North Yorkshire. It dates back to the 12th century, with an early 13th-century arcade. The church underwent restoration and re-roofing, with the north aisle rebuilt and a bellcote added by the architectural firm Paley and Austin between 1878 and 1880. A 20th-century porch has also been added.

The structure is built of squared limestone, with some rebuilding in chiselled limestone. The porch is made of dressed sandstone and timber, and the roof is covered with slate. The church features a west bellcote, a three-bay nave, a north aisle, a south porch, a chancel, and a vestry. The buttressed west end has a double-chamfered plinth. To the right, there is a two-light Perpendicular window beneath a pointed hood-mould with a headstop, while a second headstop has been reset above it. The bellcote is coped and gabled, topped with a cross.

The 20th-century south porch includes a rebuilt late 12th-century doorway, which features a chevron-moulded round arch supported by slender shafts, with a stiff-leaf capital on the right and a scalloped capital on the left. The east end of the church has a reconstructed three-light window with Decorated tracery and a rebuilt buttress with offsets further east. The chancel contains two rebuilt windows, but a small pointed light remains to the east of the buttress. The east end is set on a double chamfered plinth between angle buttresses with offsets, featuring a three-light window with Decorated tracery beneath a pointed hood-mould on a headstop, and is capped with a gable and gable cross.

Inside, the church has an early 13th-century arcade with pointed double chamfered arches on cylindrical piers, each topped with head-stopped capitals. The north wall displays fragments of 11th-century carvings, including a notable tomb slab. There is a plain 12th-century tub font set on a 19th-century base. In the embrasure of the small pointed chancel window, a transparent box holds a finely carved corbel head or head-stop from the 13th century. Additionally, a 19th-century arched niche in the chancel's north wall contains a 14th-century effigy of a priest reclining on a tomb chest adorned with five quatrefoils, each enclosing a flower. The 19th-century east window features fragments of 14th and 15th-century glass.