All Saints Church

The church of All Saints is a building dating from 1853 to 1855, designed by William Butterfield. It is constructed of dressed sandstone with sandstone ashlar quoins, dressings, and buttresses, and has slate roofs. The church is of Late 13th century style. The west end is buttressed, and incorporates two 2-light windows with foiled Y-tracery, separated by a massive buttress with steep offsets. A single foiled lancet window sits above. The aisle west walls feature single rectangular lights. A gabled and buttressed south porch has a triple-chamfered pointed opening with moulded broach-stopped jambs, and a quatrefoil light above. The interior of the porch features a corbelled rib vault with a foliate boss to the centre. The pointed doorway is set within a hood-mould on foliate corbels. To the east of the porch are three 2-light windows with Y-tracery, two with foils. Three roundels are present in the clerestory, each containing a quatrefoil. On the north side, a massive extruded chimney stack with offsets is flanked by two 2-light Y-tracery windows. The north side of the chancel has a pointed vestry door to the left of a foiled Y-tracery window. The south side has paired windows, each comprising two foiled pointed lights beneath Y-tracery. The east window consists of three lights with foiled pointed heads beneath a continuous hood-mould, raked at each end to form gablets, with a trefoil light above. Paired foiled lights are present in the east end of the vestry. All window openings are chamfered, set within quoined surrounds. A corbel table is located in the chancel. All roofs are steeply pitched with coped gables to the chancel and porch. Gable crosses top the chancel, west end, and porch.

Inside, the arcade features double-chamfered arches; the westernmost of these is lower than the others. The westernmost pier is square in section and chamfered with broach stops, and has an attached shaft to the eastern face. The remaining piers are octagonal with head stops. A pointed, chamfered chancel arch sits on corbels. Fittings designed by Butterfield include the pulpit, an octagonal font with tester, and brass altar candlesticks. The east window of 1855 is the work of William Wailes of Newcastle. Choir stalls, altar rails, a litany desk, and tall candelabra, dating from 1937, were made by Robert Thompson of Kilburn, known as the "Mouseman."