Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church located in Newton-on-Ouse, originally built in the early 12th century and significantly altered in 1849 by G T Andrew for the Hon Lydia Dawnay of Beningbrough Hall. The structure features rusticated rubblestone brought to course, with a coursed dressed sandstone tower, limestone spire, ashlar dressings, and stone slate roofs. It includes a west tower, an aisled nave with a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry, all designed in a Decorated style.

The tower has a plain lower stage from the 12th century, which includes a single trefoil-headed slit window on each face and a lower pointed arch window with two trefoil-headed lights and a quatrefoil under a hoodmould on the west face, along with a clock. The upper stage, added in 1849, features a band, quoined two-light windows on each face, a coved eaves band, gargoyles, an open-work parapet, corner pinnacles, and a recessed spire (which has been rebuilt) with thin flying buttresses, lucarnes, and a weather vane.

The nave consists of four bays with a chamfered plinth, buttresses, and a gabled porch. It has two traceried three-light triangular-headed windows on the south aisle and four traceried circular windows in the clerestory, topped with coping and fleur-de-lis finials. The chancel is lower and narrower, with two bays, featuring a central priests' door flanked by two-light windows with head-stopped hood-moulds. The east window has five trefoil-headed lights with a quatrefoil and mouchettes above.

Inside, the tower arch from the early 12th century has paired engaged columns with necking, chamfered abaci, and plain cornices. The nave includes octagonal columns with moulded bases and capitals that support a pointed-arch arcade under hoodmoulds with angel stops. The south-west window of the chancel contains stained glass from 1827, while the east window, created in 1848 by Willement, adds to the interior's character. There is also a brass plate commemorating the 6th Viscount Downe, a former incumbent of the church who died in 1846, and his wife who died in 1848. The current church replaced an earlier structure that was rebuilt in 1839.