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All Saints

All Saints

Dewsbury

West Yorkshire

North arcade c.1220.

Architectural Features

South arcade later C13, rebuilt 1895.

Nave ceiling C15.

Excellent carved oak reredos of 1913 depicting Christ with the 12 apostles, flanked by 12 early saints and monarchs.

In the west end of the north aisle are various fragments of Anglo-Saxon crosses, coffin lids and several C17 grave slabs.

On the north wall are several memorials: one to John Turner 1758 with elaborate gabled canopy.

Another excellent, similar cartouche to Johannes and Elizabeth Peables of Dewsbury who died 1684 and 1681.

Several mid C19 memorials to members of the Nowell family.

Font probably C17, a 'tulip' bowl divided into 8 panels with decorative cornice and chamfered underside with patterns.

Good stained glass generally, to chancel, chapels and transepts.

Fragments of C14 glass in north transept window

also three C13 medallions representing harvesting, threshing and pig killing (Pevsner).