All Saints, Dale Abbey

All Saints is a Grade I parish church in The Village, Dale Abbey, Derbyshire, in the Diocese of Derby: a tiny medieval church sharing a roof with the Verger’s Farmhouse, a few yards from the ruined east window of the Premonstratensian abbey.

Overview

Historic England lists the Church of All Saints and Vergers Farmhouse (1140436, Grade I, 10 November 1967). The listing describes a parish church and attached farmhouse of the late twelfth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, 1634 and the mid-nineteenth century, in coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings and red brick with pseudo timber-framed upper parts, under plain-tile roofs. The church occupies the east end: nave, chancel and south aisle, with a small wooden bellcote. A plainly chamfered round-arched doorway has a studded plank door. The east window is a three-light fourteenth-century opening with cusped ogee tracery. An external stair leads to an upper gallery.

The nave and aisle are entirely covered by an upper floor or gallery with finely moulded beams. Stud partitions divide nave from aisle and from the chancel. Box pews stand in the chancel and aisle; rough open pews, possibly seventeenth-century, occupy the nave. The pulpit, reading desk and clerk’s pew — uniquely placed behind the altar — are seventeenth-century. Late thirteenth-century wall paintings of the Annunciation, Visitation and Nativity on the north wall were restored in 1931. The fifteenth-century octagonal font has shields and carved figures. The nearby abbey ruins are listed separately (1140435). There are no regular advertised opening hours.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1140436
• SDR Churches