---
title: "All Saints Pavement, York"
description: "Located in York, Yorkshire. Built C14 arcades; tower c.1400; lantern rebuilt 1837; east end c.1780 and 1887. Diocese of York. Grade I. Perpendicular Gothic style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Yorkshire","York","Grade I","Perpendicular","Lantern Tower"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/all-saints-pavement-york"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T03:09:22.857Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T18:59:19.473Z"
location: "York, Yorkshire"
country: "England"
county: "Yorkshire"
town: "York"
address: "High Ousegate, York, Yorkshire, YO1 8RZ"
postcode: "YO1 8RZ"
built: "C14 arcades; tower c.1400; lantern rebuilt 1837; east end c.1780 and 1887"
architect: "East end William Bellwood; remodelling Fisher and Hepper"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["All Saints"]
diocese: "York"
grade: "I"
style: "Perpendicular Gothic"
materials: "Magnesian limestone ashlar on a rubble plinth; asphalt and lead roofs"
website: "https://www.allsaintspavement.co.uk/"
openingHours: "The church is open throughout the year on Sunday for the three listed services, and then each Monday to Saturday between 10am and 4pm."
parish: "All Saints, Pavement with St Crux and St Michael Spurriergate"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256921"
gridReference: "SE 604 517"
accessNotes: "Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# All Saints Pavement, York

All Saints Pavement is a Grade I parish church on Pavement in the centre of York, in the Diocese of York. Its octagonal lantern tower is a city landmark.

## Overview

Historic England describes a parish church with fourteenth-century arcades and south wall (refaced in the nineteenth century), a tower of about 1400 whose lantern was rebuilt in 1837, a mid-fifteenth-century clerestory, an east end rebuilt about 1780 by William Bellwood and remodelled in 1887 by Fisher and Hepper, a north wall and west end of 1834, and a vestry of 1850–55 enlarged in 1912. The fabric is magnesian limestone ashlar on a chamfered rubble plinth, with asphalt and lead roofs. The plan is a truncated cruciform, with a three-bay aisled nave and clerestory, south vestry and embraced west tower.

A twelfth-century closing ring on the north door takes the form of a dragon swallowing a human figure. Fittings transferred from St Crux (demolished 1887–88) and St Saviour include a pulpit sounding-board dated 1634 and mayoral boards. Glass includes fourteenth-century work from St Saviour in the west window and nineteenth-century glass by Kempe. A tenth-century Saxon grave marker in the north aisle points to a pre-Conquest church on or near the site; a church here is recorded in Domesday Book. The lantern once carried a light as a beacon for travellers in the Forest of Galtres.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1256921](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256921)
- [Wikipedia: All Saints' Church, Pavement, York](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Pavement,_York)