---
title: "All Saints, Rudston"
description: "Located in Rudston, Yorkshire. Built C12 west tower; early C13 nave aisles; late C13 chancel; C19 belfry, porch and tracery. Diocese of York. Grade I. Norman and Early English style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Yorkshire","Rudston","Grade I","Norman","Rudston Monolith"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/all-saints-rudston"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:36:31.810Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:34:22.800Z"
location: "Rudston, Yorkshire"
country: "England"
county: "Yorkshire"
town: "Rudston"
address: "All Saints, School Lane, Rudston, Yorkshire, YO25 4UY"
postcode: "YO25 4UY"
built: "C12 west tower; early C13 nave aisles; late C13 chancel; C19 belfry, porch and tracery"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["All Saints"]
diocese: "York"
grade: "I"
style: "Norman and Early English"
materials: "Ashlar with repairs in red tile; slate roofs"
website: "http://www.rudston.org.uk/all-saints-church.aspx"
openingHours: "Open during daylight hours most days of the year."
parish: "Rudston All Saints"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1162387"
gridReference: "TA 097 677"
---

# All Saints, Rudston

All Saints is a Grade I parish church on Church Lane (School Lane), Rudston, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in the Diocese of York: a Norman and Early English church whose churchyard holds the Rudston Monolith, the tallest standing stone in Britain.

## Overview

Historic England lists the church (1162387, Grade I, 30 June 1966). The listing describes a twelfth-century west tower, early thirteenth-century nave aisles, a late thirteenth-century chancel, and nineteenth-century belfry, porch and tracery alterations, in ashlar with red-tile repairs and slate roofs. The plan is a three-bay chancel, three-bay aisled nave, south porch and three-stage west tower. Nave windows are three-light square-headed openings with reticulated tracery. The chancel has a priest’s door with nook shafts, two-light windows with geometrical tracery, and a four-light east window. The tower has small lancets to the lower stage and two-light belfry openings with mid-wall shafts in round-headed openings, under a pyramidal roof behind a battlemented parapet.

Interior fittings include a twelfth-century tower arch, early thirteenth-century arcades with round piers, a late thirteenth-century chancel arch, early fourteenth-century sedilia with crocketed gables, a fourteenth-century piscina, and a twelfth-century font with alternating circle and lozenge ornament. The south aisle has a monument to the novelist Winifred Holtby, who is buried in the churchyard. About seven metres north of the church stands the separately listed Rudston Monolith (1083402, Grade I): a probable Bronze Age grey sandstone pillar about 8 metres high, the largest surviving monolith in the British Isles. The church is open in daylight hours on most days.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1162387](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1162387)
- [Historic England: Rudston Monolith 1083402](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083402)
- [Rudston village: All Saints](http://www.rudston.org.uk/all-saints-church.aspx)