All Hallows

It is perhaps 15th century, though much refaced.

The north aisle is similar, but has a plain ashlar vestry at its east end The south wall of the chancel shows most signs of medieval stonework: large irregularly sized ashlar blocks.

Here, the south window has three lights under a four-centred arch, late 15th or early 16th century while the big Dec east window is entirely of 1876-7.

Interior: The tall moulded tower arch is perhaps 15th century, as is the four-centred internal doorway to the tower stair turret.

All these features suggest the 13th century, though the two arcades may be of different dates.

In the north chapel is a good 17th century communion table with heavy baluster legs and scrolled frieze.

Plain octagonal font of 1877, and another which may be pre-Reformation, of unorthodox inverted ogee form (converted from something else?).

The good oak chancel screen is probably late 15th century, with cusped ogee lights, and a dado with similar tracery beneath a frieze of trefoils in circles.

The best glass includes the East window by Camm Brothers of Smethwick, 1877

In the south aisle, unusual brass plates to Stephen Coe, 1614, Elizabeth Coe 1653 (larger, decorative)

John Johnson, 1680

Marble tablet in a leafy frame with cherubs, to Henry Halfhide, 1689, and one to Richard Brownlow, 1706 with swags and a skull, swept pediment with lamps and arms.

In the north aisle is a memorial of Nottinghamshire alabaster with kneeling figure between Corinthian columns, c.

Outside the south porch is a medieval stone (a hollow octagon on a square slab), perhaps from a small font or a column base.

no church is mentioned in Domesday, and the first recorded rector was in 1277.

Fragments of a Norman font and badly burned stonework were found during the work.

Further restoration in 1880 under C. Hodgson Fowler included the third resiting of the rood screen.

faculties PR 14, 224/1-4, and OD 1 S Ground plan stamped T.C. Hine The Retford Times, April 7 and November 3, 1877 Reasons for Designation: The church of All Hallows, Ordsall, East Retford, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * For its Medieval structural survivals, principally the Perp tower and Early English nave arcades with characteristic keeled mouldings and ornament * Good oak rood screen probably of the late 15th century * The rest the rest of the church was rebuilt or restored by the pre-eminent Nottingham architect, T.C. Hine, 1876-7, reflecting restoration approaches of that time. * A small but interesting collection of 17th and 18th century tablets and brasses, and decent Victorian and later glass, including work by Kempe