All Saints, Bolton Percy
All Saints, Bolton Percy
All Saints is a Grade I parish church on Main Street, Bolton Percy, North Yorkshire, in the Diocese of York. A church stood here at Domesday; the present building is locally nicknamed the Cathedral of the Ainsty.
- Location
- Bolton Percy, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Bolton Percy
- Address
- All Saints, Main Street, Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, YO23 7AL
- Postcode
- YO23 7AL
- Built
- Early 14th century; consecrated 1424
- Consecrated
- 8 July 1424
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- York
- Parish
- Bolton Percy
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Magnesian limestone ashlar with stone slate roof
- Grid reference
- SE 531 412
- Opening hours
- Our church is open to visitors every day during daylight hours.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England lists an early-fourteenth-century church consecrated in 1424, with the east window restored in 1866 by William Warrington and a 1905 restoration by John Bilson that probably added the south porch. Parish accounts also record a restoration of 1890 by James Demaine and Walter Brierley. The fabric is magnesian limestone ashlar under a stone slate roof: a three-stage west tower, four-bay aisled nave with south porch, and three-bay chancel with north vestry. Perpendicular three-light windows run under four-centred arches; the east window is of five lights. The tower has angle buttresses, battlements and pinnacles.
Inside are a Norman tub font with a Jacobean cover, a complete set of Jacobean box pews, a Caroline pulpit with tester, medieval stalls, and monuments including a Baroque wall monument to Ferdinando, 2nd Lord Fairfax (d.1648). Wikipedia, citing the parish, states that Bishop Nicholas Warte of Dromore consecrated the church on 8 July 1424 while Thomas Percy was rector. The church was re-roofed in 2016.