Church Of All Saints

SINNINGTON CHURCH LANE SE 78 NW (east side) 8/78 Church of All Saints 10.11.53 GV II* Church. C12 nave and chancel, restored; some C17 windows; vestry and bellcote of 1904, and chancel arch rebuilt. Restoration, rebuilding and additions by C Hodgson Fowler. Rubble sandy limestone incorporating numerous fragments of earlier carved stone; stone flag roofs to chancel and vestry; nave roof of slate to north and tile to south; porch roof tiled; bellcote of timber and shingles. West bellcote; nave and south porch; chancel and vestry. West end: offset angle buttress to north. Blocked round-arched doorway with roll-moulded arch on attached shafts with scalloped capitals, much weathered. Square-headed 2-light mullioned window inserted over door, and above this an original round-headed light. Square- section bellcote with louvred openings surmounted by a sprocketed spirelet and weather-vane. Nave: gabled south porch with round-arched opening. Round-arched south doorway of 2 orders, the outer roll-moulded. The shafts have gone but capitals with traces of waterleaf survive. Over the door is a decaying relief possibly of Samson and the Lion. East of the porch, 2 square-headed, 2-light inserted mullioned windows flank an original round- headed light. Offset angle buttress to west. On the north side, a blocked round-arched chamfered doorway is partly obscured by a later outbuilding towards the west end. Chancel: blocked priests' door on south side to west of inserted square-headed window. North side largely obscured by the vestry but a 2-light mullioned window is visible to the west. East end: offset clasping buttress to south; buttress to north incorporated into vestry. C20 pointed west window of 3 trefoil-headed lights with panel tracery over. Coped gables to porch and to west end. Interior: portions of 3 original openings have been exposed: the arch of the blocked west door, the jamb and a section of the arch to the north door, and a round window head in the nave south wall. Semicircular chancel arch of 2 plain orders retains an original shaft with scalloped capital as the north respond. Piscina to east of south door and second piscina with fluted bowl in sanctuary south wall. C17 pews of raised and fielded panelling with carved ends and acorn knobs. c17 turned altar rails. C17 hatchment over south door. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, The North Riding, 1966; pp 341, 342.

Listing NGR: SE7463886062