All Saints was built between 1905 and 1906, and designed by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley.[3][4] It was dedicated on 28 July 1905 by Edmund Knox, Bishop of Manchester, and was originally a chapel of ease to St Thomas, Garstang. The church cost £2,000 (equivalent to £270,000 in 2023),[5] 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 on 23 October 1911. In 1936 James Lever Rushton died,[6] and the southeast chapel, designed by Henry Paley, of the same firm of Lancaster architects, was built in his memory at a cost of £1,252.[7]
Architecture
The church is constructed in sandstonerubble, with red tiled roofs. Its plan consists of a nave and a chancel under a continuous roof, a north transept containing the organ chamber and vestry, a south chapel, and a west tower. The tower has angle buttresses, a stair turret at the northeast corner, a plain parapet, and a pyramidal roof. It has a three-light west window with Perpendiculartracery, 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-bayarcade leading to the chapel. In the chancel is a sedilia and a piscina.[2] The font stands under the tower and consists of a large bowl with buttressed sides.[3] The stained glass in the windows was designed by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster.[8] The two-manualpipe organ was made in about 1875 by Henry Ainscough and was originally in Barnacre Lodge.[9]
Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8