---
title: "All Saints, Sancton"
description: "Located in Sancton, Yorkshire. Built C15 west tower; nave and chancel rebuilt 1869–71. Diocese of York. Grade II*. Gothic Revival (Early English); Perpendicular tower style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Yorkshire","Sancton","Grade II*","Gothic Revival","J B and W Atkinson"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/all-saints-sancton"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:37:18.691Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T00:34:08.912Z"
location: "Sancton, Yorkshire"
country: "England"
county: "Yorkshire"
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"
dedications: ["All Saints"]
diocese: "York"
grade: "II*"
style: "Gothic Revival (Early English); Perpendicular tower"
materials: "Ashlar to the west tower; coursed squared rubble elsewhere; graduated slate roof"
openingHours: "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."
parish: "Sancton"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1084105"
gridReference: "SE 900 395"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets in church"
---

# 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.

## 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.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1084105](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1084105)