All Saints Church

SE 9683 WYKEHAM A 170 (north side)

14/117 All Saints Church

18.1.67 GV II *

Church. 1853-55. By William Butterfield. Dressed sandstone with sandstone ashlar quoins, dressings and buttresses; slate roofs. 4-bay aisled nave, with clerestory; south porch; chancel, organ loft and vestry. Late C13 style. Buttressed west end has two 2-light windows with foiled Y-tracery separated by a massive buttress with steep offsets. Single foiled lancet above. Aisle west walls have single rectangular lights. Gabled and buttressed south porch contains triple-chamfered pointed opening with moulded broach-stopped jambs, and a quatrefoil light above. Interior of porch has corbelled rib vault with foliate boss to centre. Pointed doorway has hood-mould on foliate corbels. To east of porch are three 2-light windows with Y-tracery, 2 with foils. 3 roundels to clerestory, each enclosing a quatrefoil. On the north side a massive extruded chimney stack with offsets is flanked by two 2-light Y-tracery windows. North side of chancel has a pointed vestry door to left of a foiled Y-tracery window. On the south side are paired windows each of 2 foiled pointed lights beneath Y- tracery. The east window is of 3 lights with foiled pointed heads beneath a continuous hood-mould raked at each end to form gablets. Trefoil light above. East end of vestry to north has paired foiled lights. All window openings are chamfered, in quoined surrounds. Corbel table to chancel. All roofs are steeply pitched. Coped gables to chancel and porch. Gable crosses to chancel, west end and porch. Interior: arcade of double chamfered arches, the westernmost lower than the others. The westernmost pier is of square section and chamfered with broach stops, and has an attached shaft to the eastern face. Remaining piers are octagonal with head stops. Pointed chamfered chancel arch on corbels. Fittings designed by Butterfield include the pulpit, an octagonal font with tester, and brass altar candlesticks. The east window of 1855 is by William Wailes of Newcastle. Choir stalls, altar rails, litany desk and tall candelabra of 1937, by Robert Thompson of Kilburn, the "Mouseman". N Pevsner, The Buildings of England; Yorkshire, The North Riding, 1966; pp 404 - 5. P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971.

Listing NGR: SE9648283393