Church of All Saints

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All Saints' Church is an Anglican church in Great Thirkleby, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A church was built in Thirkleby in or before the 11th century. It was demolished and a new church was built in 1722. In 1852, that building was demolished, and a new church was constructed, to a 14th-century neo-Gothic design by Edward Buckton Lamb. It was commissioned by Louisa Frankland-Russell, in memory of her husband. The building was grade II* listed in 1988. Its distinctive features include an octagonal chapel with a vault below.

The church is built of stone, the aisles roofed in Welsh slate and the rest of the church in tile. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with a southeast chapel and a north vestry, and a northwest porch and steeple. The steeple has a tower with two stages, an octagonal stair turret with a conical roof, circular windows on the east and west fronts, and a three-light window on the north, two-light bell openings, a moulded band with ball flowers, and a broach spire, with finials on the broaches, lucarnes, a scalloped capstone, and an iron finial. Inside, the hammerbeam roofs are visible, while the chapel has...