Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating to the early 14th century, consecrated in 1424. It was restored in 1866 by William Warrington and in 1905 by John Bilson, the latter restoration likely including the addition of the south porch. The church is constructed of Magnesian limestone ashlar with a stone slate roof.

The church comprises a three-stage west tower, a four-bay aisled nave with a south porch, and a three-bay chancel with a north vestry. The tower features angle buttresses, chamfered plinth, a pointed-arched plank door under a hood-mould, a three-cinquefoil-light window above the door, a two-light straight-headed window to the south, and three-light cusped, straight-headed bell openings. The tower is topped with battlements and angle pinnacles. The south porch has a pointed entrance under a hood-mould with double plank doors in a moulded surround, similarly under a hood-mould with shield stops.

The nave has offset buttresses, a chamfered plinth, and three-light Perpendicular windows under four-centred arches. The north side has a four-centred doorway leading to the interior. A low parapet runs along the nave’s roofline. The chancel includes offset buttresses, a plinth, a central pointed priest's entrance with a plank door, a low single-bay vestry to the north with a three-trefoil-light window to the east, and further three-light windows with Perpendicular tracery under hood-moulds. Battlements with finials top the chancel. The east end has a five-light window with Perpendicular tracery under a hood-mould and a cross at the apex.

Inside, a double-chamfered pointed tower arch, partially obscured by the organ, leads into the nave. A pointed, double-chamfered arcade sits on octagonal piers with three-columnar responds to the east. A stoup is located to the right of the south door. Notable features include a Norman tub font with a Jacobean font cover featuring traceried panels, a Jacobean prayer desk with strapwork panels, and a Caroline pulpit with fielded-panel sides and a tester ornamented with cherubs' heads. The chancel arch is double-chamfered, with three engaged shafts at the responds. A gabled sedilia has three gables, and a piscina features an angel at its base. A few medieval stalls remain. Various monuments include a medieval grave slab to Elizabeth Ryther, 17th-century slabs to the nave floor, a Baroque wall monument to Ferdinando, 2nd Lord Fairfax (died 1648), monuments to Isabella Bladen (died 1691) and her mother Francis Fairfax (died 1692), a cartouche to William Fairfax (died 1694), a monument to the wife of William Milner by Bacon (1807), a monument to Sir William Milner (died 1811) by C Fisher, and a monument to Maria Fairfax (died 1642). A complete set of Jacobean box pews are also present.