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All Saints

All Saints

Kirk Deighton

North Yorkshire

Early-mid C15 with C12 remains and restorations in 1849 and 1875, by W Perkin and Son for Rev J W Geldart.

Architectural Features

Battlemented parapet, gargoyles, plain pinnacles, octagonal spire with weather-vane.

Board door to chancel in Tudor arch with stepped hoodmould.

The baptistry below the tower has traces of painted plaster above the south stair door and remains of C12

C13 carved stones

SE3950 : All Saints Church, Kirk Deighton, Font

the font is 1874.

SE3950 : All Saints Church, Kirk Deighton, Font

© Alexander P Kapp

South aisle: remains of a piscina at the east end of the south wall, and a stone with remains of an Anglo-Saxon interlaced design above the eastern arch of the arcade.

Chancel: a fine marble monument to Richard Burton, d1656 on the north wall

an oval frame containing a frontal kneeling figure.

The patronage of the living was held by the Roos family of Ingmanthorpe until the C16.

Richard Burton was a Royalist during the Civil War and rector 1648-56.