All Saints Church is in Delph Lane,

Barnacre-with-Bonds Barnacre-with-Bonds is a civil parish in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,751 increasing to 2,148 at the 2011 census. The parish covers an area to the south and east of Garstang, in ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

, England. It is an active

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in the deanery of Garstang, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the

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. Its

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is united with those of St Peter, Scorton, and St John the Evangelist, Calder Vale. The church is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade II

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History

All Saints was built between 1905 and 1906, and designed by the

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architects

Austin and Paley Sharpe, Paley and Austin are the surnames of architects who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, between 1835 and 1946, working either alone or in partnership. The full names of the principals in their practice, which went under variou ...

. It was dedicated on 28 July 1905 by Edmund Knox,

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, and was originally a

chapel of ease A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church architecture, church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to trav ...

to St Thomas, Garstang. The church cost £2,000 (equivalent to £ in ), it was paid for by the family of Thomas Henry Rushton in his memory, and the furnishings were given by the Rushton family. All Saints became a separate parish in its own right in 1911, and the church and churchyard were

consecrated Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence among believers. The property is often ascribed to objects (a ...

on 23 October 1911. In 1936 James Lever Rushton died, and the southeast chapel, designed by

Henry Paley Henry Anderson Paley (1859–1946) was an English architect. Training and career He was the fifth and last child of the Lancaster architect Edward Paley. He was educated at Castle Howard School in Lancaster, then from 1873 at Uppingham School. ...

, of the same firm of Lancaster architects, was built in his memory at a cost of £1,252.

Architecture

The church is constructed in

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, with red tiled roofs. Its plan consists of a

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and a

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under a continuous roof, a north

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containing the organ chamber and

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, a south chapel, and a west tower. The tower has angle

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es, a stair

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at the northeast corner, a plain

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, and a pyramidal roof. It has a three-light west window with

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, a north doorway, and two-light bell openings with inscriptions above them. The windows on the sides of the church have two or three lights. In the chapel is a circular east window. The east window in the chancel has four lights with Perpendicular tracery. Inside the church is a two-

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leading to the chapel. In the chancel is a

sedilia In church architecture, sedilia (plural of Latin ''sedīle'', "seat") are seats, typically made of stone, located on the liturgical south side of the altar—often within the chancel—intended for use by the officiating priest, deacon, an ...

and a

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. The

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stands under the tower and consists of a large bowl with buttressed sides. The stained glass in the windows was designed by

Shrigley and Hunt Shrigley and Hunt was an English firm which produced stained-glass windows and art tiles. History The business began in the 1750s when Shrigley's was a painting, carving and gilding firm in Lancaster, Lancashire. In 1868, control of Shrigley' ...

of Lancaster. The two- manual

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was made in about 1875 by Henry Ainscough and was originally in Barnacre Lodge.

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