Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church dating from 1851, designed by E B Lamb for Lady Frankland. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and has tile roofs with Welsh slates. The church comprises a three-bay aisled nave with a north-west porch and tower, a lower two-bay aisled chancel, a south-east Frankland chapel, and a north vestry. It is built in the Decorated style, featuring offset buttresses, a chamfered plinth, bands, pointed-headed windows with hoodmoulds, corbelled eaves, and diaper-patterned roofs with gabled kneelers and ashlar coping.

The two-stage tower has an octagonal vice with small trefoils and a conical stone roof. The first stage features circular windows to the west and east, and a three-light window to the north. The second stage has two-light windows, cavetto eaves with ball flowers, and a broached spire with ball finials to the broaches, lucarnes, a scalloped capstone, and an iron finial. The west end of the nave has a four-light pointed-arch window and a gabled porch, with an open-panelled double-door in a richly moulded surround, a spherical-triangle date panel, and an inner board door with decorative ironwork and a circular panel. A circular window with triangular and trefoil tracery is set into the south-aisle end. The south side of the nave has two-light aisle windows and one-light clerestory windows.

The chancel’s south side has two one-light windows to the aisle and a two-light window with elaborately-traceried head to the Frankland chapel, which rises as a hexagonal tower with buttresses and a coped parapet on a moulded band, topped with a cross finial. The east chancel window is of three lights with a star in the head, and a small circular window above. The chapel also includes a blind window of two lights with heraldic shields.

Inside, the nave arcades are defined by moulded pointed arches on octagonal columns, and a similar tower arch leads to the chancel, which has a taller roll-moulded pointed arch on corbelled columns with floral capitals. The nave and chancel incorporate hammer-beam roofs with shields at the ends of the corbels, and curved principal rafters to the aisles, with fretted timber spandrels. Cusped niches with painted figures flank the east window. Original features include a contemporary altar rail, font, a screen to the chapel, and Minton floor tiles to the chancel and chapel. The chapel’s ribbed vault has an initialled boss, a set of three by two niches at the east end with floral-decorated capitals, elaborate ogee heads, finials, and brass memorial plaques. Further niches are placed within the remaining walls. Memorials in the nave are dedicated to members of the Frankland family, including one to Sir Thomas Frankland, who built the previous church in 1722, and display coats of arms. The church was built by Lady Frankland in memory of her husband.