Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed church located in Moor Monkton, North Yorkshire. It dates back to the 12th century and underwent significant restoration in 1879 by J H Fowler of Louth. The church is constructed from sandstone and gritstone ashlar, topped with a plain tile roof.

The building features a west tower, a four-bay nave with a south porch, and a two-bay chancel. The three-stage tower is characterized by full-height clasping buttresses and a string course at each stage. The west front includes a round-headed window with nook-shafts, a narrow round-headed window on the second stage, and two round-headed belfry openings with continuous hoodmoulds, separated by flat buttresses on the third stage. The plain parapet is supported by corbels adorned with animal head gargoyles at the corners.

On the south front of the nave, there is an inserted single-light pointed window in the first bay, a rebuilt porch with a round-arched doorway in the second bay, an original round-headed slit window in the third bay, and inserted paired pointed windows in the fourth bay. The north front of the nave has two restored pointed windows. The chancel features a round-arched priest's door and a pointed window on the south side, along with a pointed window and a small round-arched window on the north side. The east front showcases a 19th-century triple round-arched window with zigzag decoration.

Inside, the porch contains a south door with two orders; the outer roll-moulded order is supported on shafts, with the left shaft featuring a waterleaf capital. The hoodmould has an original beast's head label stop on the right. The east wall of the porch incorporates a slab about 0.5 meters long, with sunk quatrefoils at the head and base, depicting the head and feet of a priest. The west wall features a small draped figure with a missing head. The west tower houses an 18th-century memorial showing a recumbent figure on a bier, framed by drapes and topped with putti seated on death heads, supporting a coat of arms.