Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a former parish church located in Great Ayton, with parts dating back to the 12th century for the nave, a 13th-century chancel and porch, an 18th-century refurbishment, and 19th-century restoration and the addition of a vestry. It is constructed from coursed local middle Jurassic sandstone ashlar and features graduated green slate roofs. The building includes a nave with a south porch, a lower and narrower chancel, and a north vestry. The original west tower was removed in 1880.

The church has a chamfered plinth and the nave displays an eaves corbel table adorned with worn masks and other carvings. The large porch features a stone-coped gable set on sloped footstones, a stepped plinth, and a wide, shouldered arch. The returns of the porch have small blocked cusped windows. Inside, there are side benches and a 12th-century internal doorway with roll-moulded inner and chevron-moulded outer orders, supported by shafts with worn capitals on plinths. The two bays to the east of the porch contain 18th-century windows with fixed lights, radial heads, and small opening panes.

The chancel features a chamfered priest's door with a flattened Tudor arch, along with a small pointed-arched window with an interlaced head. The Victorian east window consists of three stepped lancets under a hoodmould. The 19th-century vestry has north and east lancets, while the north wall shows remnants of a 12th-century door at the west end, two large 18th-century windows, and a three-light Tudor window further east. A late Georgian pointed-arched west window has a foliate grave slab inserted in the wall above it, beneath a bell niche and finial.

Inside, the church has a 12th-century chancel arch with roll moulding on plain jambs, a trefoil-headed niche to the west, and a tomb recess in the north wall. The roof features a late medieval king-post design with side struts. The Georgian panelled oak pulpit and pews are complemented by iron candleholders, and there are several Georgian memorial tablets throughout the interior.