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All Saints

All Saints

Bolton

Cumbria

C13 with later alterations

Architectural Features

Graduated slate roofs (chancel lower) with stone copings and C17 apex finials

C12 south door has single roll-moulding to semicircular head with rosette decoration to hoodmould.

Each capital has a chip-carved abacus with a low-relief figure to the side

the left hand capital has scallop decoration, the right-hand one is moulded (possibly recut in C13).

2 contemporary carved stones are set in the wall above, one depicts 2 knights jousting and the other bears a badly weathered inscription.

Narrower chancel has square-headed C14/C15 window

2 lancets, of which the second has had its sill raised to accommodate a square-headed C17 doorway

single C12 slit window, near east end in both north and south walls.

3-light east window is largely C19 under C14 pointed hoodmould.

At west end, dogtooth ornamented trefoil heads to single-light windows on either side of central buttress originally formed a C13/C14 quatrefoil panel.

Internally, plain semicircular C17 chancel arch has C19 traceried screen infill.

NY6323 : Bolton, All Saints Church: Font with cover of 1687

Hemispherical font on square pedestal with chamfered base and capital has conical, ribbed, wooden cover initialled and dated T.G. W.H. 1687.

NY6323 : Bolton, All Saints Church: Font with cover of 1687

© Michael Garlick

Fastened to wall on east side of door is wooden poor box with dated inscription (now partly painted out) "1634 The pour mans box and churchwardens seat".

Some re-used C17 panelling at west end with gallery above.

an C18 memorial stone fastened externally to the south wall of the chancel records the gifts of James Hanson and his wife to the village school.

A badly weathered C14 tomb effigy is set in the south wall of the nave to the left of the porch.