The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
All Souls or All Saints (medieval)
Parish church
The church is at the W end of the village, overlooking the Derwent Ings. To its N is a Norman motte, and to its E is the moated site of the late-medieval manor house. The church has a Norman nave, an Early English north aisle, a chancel built in 1836 and shortened in 1963, and a late 16th-century W tower. There was a restoration in 1891-3 by Demaine & Brierley, plans of which are in Borthwick Institute (Fac. 1890/16). The ‘as now’ drawings in the faculty papers show the south wall with two round-headed windows, which look 18th century by their glazing. The surviving string course is shown.
There is a ‘fine Norman chancel arch’ and a font of the same period, while the ‘somewhat over-restored’ S doorway is based on a 12th-century one (Pevsner & Neave 1995, 268).