All Saints dates from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with later alterations. It was restored in 1848.[3]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is long and narrow, constructed in stone with slate roofs. It has a simple plan consisting of a nave, and a chancel with a south porch. On the west gable is a bellcote with a saddleback roof.[3][4] Its Norman features include the south and north doorways (the north is blocked), and slit windows towards the east end of the north and south walls of the chancel.[4]
Along the south wall of the nave are three eighteenth-century round-headed windows. In the south wall of the chancel are, in addition to the slit window, a fourteenth/fifteenth century square-headed window, and two lancet windows, one of which has been shortened to accommodate a seventeenth-century square-headed doorway. The east window has three lights.
The main south doorway in the porch has a semicircular head, carved capitals, and a hoodmould decorated with rosettes. Above the north doorway are two twelfth-century carved stones, one depicting two jousting knights, the other with an illegible inscription.[3] Inset in the south wall to the west of the porch is an upright female effigy that was probably originally a coffin lid.[4]
Interior
Inside the church, the semicircular chancel arch, dating from the seventeenth century, contains nineteenth century tracery.[3] Above the chancel arch are the Royal arms of Queen Victoria.[4] At the west end of the church is a gallery, and on the walls of the church are benefactors' boards. On the wall adjacent to the door is a poor box dated 1623.[3] The font consists of a round bowl on a square pedestal, with a cover dated 1687.
The stained glass in the east window and in one of the windows in the south wall of the chancel is by Clayton and Bell.[4]
External features
In the churchyard is a Grade II listed table tomb to members of the Bowness family with dates in the 18th century.[5] Also in the churchyard is a stone sundial dated 1747 set on a medieval cross-base. It is also listed at Grade II.[6]