All Saints

The tower, said to be a Norman heightening of a 2-storey Saxon porch (Pevsner) is of rubble finished with ashlar at the belfry stage, is unbuttressed, and has on its south side a Saxon doorway restored in 1871: a small round-headed opening with jambs and head of large blocks, and projecting imposts decorated with fine interlacing, the whole surrounded by a restored extrados band decorated with a carved vine scroll, to the right of this is a small round-headed window with head carved in one stone, and another on the level above, and below the change in masonry a modern circular clockface.

The west side has a C19 Saxon-style window, and a small chamfered rectangular window above

the Norman belfry stage of ashlar has in each side a louvred window of 2 lights with a colonette and cushion capital, a corbel table and corner gargoyles, an embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles, and an octagonal spire.

The short 3-bay nave has in the centre a gabled C19 porch and at each side of this a 3-light Perpendicular window, both with cusped lights and traceried heads, but that on the right is slightly smaller and less regular, and that on the left has a carved head over it

The north aisle has two C15 windows with deeply-chamfered surrounds, each of 3 arched lights with hollow spandrels.

Interior: at the west end of the nave a Norman round-headed tower arch, and above this an earlier round-headed window, at the east end a restored Saxon chancel arch, and in both sides at a high level remains of round-headed Saxon windows

incorporated in the north wall of the aisle, remains of Anglo-Saxon masonry with interlace and cross

in the north chapel very fine family monuments with life-sized effigies: Lady Mary Bolles recumbent on a tomb chest

Sir John and Lady Lewis, 1677, by Thomas Cartwright, on 2 levels, reclining on a sarcophagus

SE4529 : Ledsham, All Saints' Church: Sir John and Lady Lewis monument (1677) 5

© Michael Garlick

and Lady Elizabeth ("Betty") Hastings, 1739 by Peter Schleemakers, reclining on a wall-mounted sarcophagus the pedestal beneath this displaying a lengthy inscription in Latin, and the whole flanked by free-standing figures of her step-sisters Piety and Prudence, each on a similar pedestal, (all these of Ledston Hall, Ledston CP, Q.V,)

window on south side of chancel containing glass showing 3 achievements of Sir John Lewis, probably by Henry Gyles of York