Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church that dates from the 12th to the 15th centuries, with rebuilding and restoration work carried out in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of magnesian limestone ashlar and features a red plain tile roof along with stone slates on the porch. The church has a two-bay chancel, a four-bay aisled nave, a south porch, and a south-west tower. The chancel, built in the 13th century, includes a 14th-century north aisle that now serves as a vestry, featuring straight-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery. On the south side, there are two lancet windows and a weathered door with roll moulding and remnants of moulded capitals. The second bay displays a blocked arcade, indicating the removal of a former chapel. The east window of the chancel is a five-light pointed Perpendicular design. The nave contains three-light, flat-arched, trefoil-headed windows. The gable-ended west wall, dating from the mid to late 12th century, has a recut transitional doorway with two orders and nookshafts that have waterleaf capitals. The door is adorned with decorative strap hinges. The south porch was rebuilt in 1935 and covers the original round-arched door, which has a partly recut head. The early 15th-century bell tower is built in three stages and features polygonal angle buttresses topped with crockets on the first stage, as well as diagonal buttresses with set-offs above. The ground floor has an ogee-arched three-light window with restored Perpendicular tracery. The first stage includes a crocketed nodding-ogee-headed niche that contains a 20th-century statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a pedestal, with trefoiled lights under flat arches on the north and south sides, complete with drip moulds. The recessed bell stage has three-light ogee-arched bell openings with restored Perpendicular tracery and drip moulds with carved stops. The tower features a string-course, buttresses, battlements, and angle pinnacles. Inside, the chancel arcade consists of double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers. The nave has a 13th-century south arcade with double-chamfered arches on quatrefoil piers that have water-holding bases and moulded capitals. The mid-14th-century tower arch leads to the nave. There is also a wall monument to George Mountain, Archbishop of York, who died in 1623, featuring a life-size frontal demi-figure.