All Saints, Sancton
All Saints, Sancton
All Saints is a Grade II* parish church on King Street, Sancton, East Riding of Yorkshire, in the Diocese of York, distinguished by a rare fifteenth-century octagonal west tower.
- Location
- Sancton, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Sancton
- Address
- King Street, Sancton, Yorkshire, YO43 4QP
- Postcode
- YO43 4QP
- Built
- C15 west tower; nave and chancel rebuilt 1869–71
- Architect
- J B and W Atkinson
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- York
- Parish
- Sancton
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Gothic Revival (Early English); Perpendicular tower
- Materials
- Ashlar to the west tower; coursed squared rubble elsewhere; graduated slate roof
- Grid reference
- SE 900 395
- Opening hours
- Open daily from 9.30am until 4.30pm in winter and 6pm in summer. Telephone contacts out of these hours on noticeboard in the porch.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England dates the west tower to the fifteenth century and the remainder to a rebuild of 1869–71 using old materials, by J. B. and W. Atkinson, in Gothic Revival style. The tower is ashlar, the rest coursed squared rubble, under a graduated slate roof. The plan is a two-stage octagonal west tower, four-bay nave with south porch and three-bay chancel. The tower has diagonal buttresses with crocketed pinnacles, a three-light Perpendicular west window, two-light belfry openings with double transoms, a crenellated parapet and short flying buttresses.
The listing notes a pointed double-chamfered tower arch dying into responds that incorporate reused twelfth-century chevrons, and a fifteenth-century octagonal font with shields and fleurons. The parish account adds that the lantern tower is octagonal from foot to top, unique in the East Riding; chevron voussoirs and cushion capitals survive from a twelfth-century church; and Marmaduke, Lord Langdale (died 1661) is buried near the altar. A Domesday church is recorded at Sancton.