All Saints, Laughton en le Morthen
All Saints, Laughton en le Morthen
All Saints is a Grade I parish church on Church Corner, Laughton-en-le-Morthen, South Yorkshire, in the Diocese of Sheffield: a landmark steeple above a Saxon north porticus and a twelfth-century chancel.
- Location
- Laughton en le Morthen, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Laughton en le Morthen
- Address
- Church Corner, Laughton en le Morthen, Yorkshire, S25 1YB
- Postcode
- S25 1YB
- Built
- Saxon north porticus; C12 chancel; mostly late C14; restored 1853
- Architect
- Sir George Gilbert Scott (mid C19 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Sheffield
- Parish
- Laughton-en-le-Morthen
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular, retaining Decorated motifs; Saxon north doorway
- Materials
- Ashlar limestone partly lined with sandstone; rubblework to earlier parts; lead roofs
- Grid reference
- SK 518 882
- Opening hours
- The church is open for coffee on the third Thursday of every month between April and December 10am to 12noon.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists a church with a Saxon north porticus, twelfth-century chancel, and fabric otherwise mostly late fourteenth-century, restored in the mid nineteenth century by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Walls are ashlar limestone partly lined with sandstone, with rubblework to earlier parts and lead roofs. The plan has a west tower with octagonal spire, a three-bay aisled nave with south porch overlapping the tower, a two-bay chancel with north organ chamber, and a north vestry. The tower has a transomed three-light west window, paired two-light belfry openings, and an octagonal embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles and flying buttresses to a crocketed octagonal spire.
The Saxon porticus against the north of the tower has a segmentally arched doorway within a pilastered Saxon round arch. Wikipedia and CRSBI place the church on a magnesian limestone outlier beside the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey that succeeded Earl Edwin of Mercia’s hall. The church was given to York Minster as a prebend by Queen Matilda and Henry I, probably in 1104–05. Scott’s restoration is dated 1853. The church has level access to the main areas.