All Saints

C15 additions

tower and transepts rebuilt 1841-52 by William Flockton of Sheffield who replicated the medieval design

EXTERIOR: nave: offset buttresses flank C12 west door with two orders of colonnettes, beakhead ornament and saltire crosses

C15 3-light west window having C19 Geometrical tracery and hoodmould.

C15 south porch with diagonal buttresses, double-chamfered arch and hoodmould beneath niche

Unrestored C13 inner door with dogtooth ornament.

Restored C13 north door.

outer shafts rise from carved heads

carved string course beneath three trefoils.

moulded oversailing course with gargoyles beneath embattled parapet behind which rises the octagonal spire with weather-vane.

String course with gargoyles

Restored C13 Y-tracery windows to the chancel and nave aisles.

INTERIOR: C12 round arches to short west bay of nave, also similar blind arches in the west walls of the aisles

some walling above the arches may be Saxon.

South transept (known as the Newark) c1220-1240 rebuilt 1841-52: arcade to Vernon Chapel with quatrefoiled piers having shafts in the diagonals

Chancel: late C13 sedilia and double piscina under linked hoodmoulds.

C14 octagonal font with cusped arches over whole figures.

Near the font are parts of three medieval misericords

Royal Arms of Charles II dated 1678 and an early C19 board listing church fees.

FITTINGS: stone pulpit.

SK2168 : All Saints, Bakewell - Pulpit

© John Salmon

Brass eagle lectern.

Chancel woodwork of 1879-82 incorporates some medieval fragments.

misericords and carved panels in niches adjoining the screen.

Screen to Vernon Chapel C14 modified C17.

In the north aisle a C15 oak parish chest and a Church Warden's Safe of 1814.

MONUMENTS: of particular note the small alabaster wall monument to Sir Godfrey Foljambe and wife c1377 (east end of south aisle).

Vernon Chapel: to Sir Thomas Wendesley d. 1403 lying in armour on a later base.

Small alabaster tomb-chest to John Vernon, d. 1477.

Polychromatic tomb chest to Sir George Vernon, d. 1567, with two wives.

Standing wall monument to John Manners, d. 1584 and wife Dorothy Vernon

Large and more impressive standing monument to Sir George Manners, d. 1623 and wife Grace Pierrepoint d. 1650 with their children in prayer and a baby in swaddling clothes.

Various plaques on west wall of south transept include several C17 brasses

the most elaborate to William Savile, d. 1658, 'Steward to the Earle of Rutland'.

Various wall monuments in the chancel.

STAINED GLASS: north aisle window of 1893 by Henry Holiday

South porch contains a remarkable and very important collection of Anglo-Saxon, Norman and early medieval fragments discovered during the major works of the mid C19