← Database
All Saints

All Saints

Crofton

West Yorkshire

4-bay nave articulated by offset buttresses, surmounted by grotesque gargoyles: 2-light windows with cusped lights and panel tracery (some renewed), hoodmoulds with carved face stops.

Architectural Features

C15 gabled porch with groined vault.

C15 piscina in sanctuary has trefoil carved head in 2-centred arched recess.

Monuments: the finest in north transept erected to Mary Meyer c1739 by Paul Meyer

another in chancel, large marble monument to Sir Henry Wright Wilson of Crofton Hall c1836.

Furnishings: C15 octagonal font has shields set in quatrefoils to each face.

Two funeral hatchments.

Remains of 2 Saxon crosses.

A fine church prominently sited on top of a hill although there is a tradition that the church was moved from a site at the bottom of the hill around 1430 by Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln.