All Saints Parish Church

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All Saints’ Church, Northallerton is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.HistoryThe first church was set up by St Paulinus of York on the site of the present All Saints' Parish Church sometime in the early 7th century. It was made from wood and nothing survives of it. In 855 a stone church was built on the same site, fragments of stone have been found during restoration work which provide strong evidence of this Saxon church.The Saxon church was likely destroyed by the Scots during the First War of Scottish Independence in 1318, and the current church building was commissioned by Bishop Thomas Hatfield of Durham and dates from the twelfth century with parts from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. The chancel was pulled down in 1779 and rebuilt. This was pulled down in November 1882 and a new one erected in 1885 to the designs of Charles Hodgson Fowler. The exterior walls were repaired, and the transept walls which had leaned outwards were returned to the vertical. The tracery in the windows was restored and a new window inserted in the west end of the nave. The south aisle walls were reconstructed and the lancet windows in the transept which were filled with stone, were opened out. The cost of the restoration works was around £6,000. The new chancel was reopened on 26 May 1885 by the Archbishop of York.Parish statusThe church is in a joint parish with St Lawrence’s Church, Kirby SigstonSt James’ Church, Romanby