Listed Building record MDR5802 - All Saints' Church, Ladywood Road, Ilkeston

All Saints' Church, Ladywood Road, Ilkeston, originally a 14th century building. 'No church is mentioned as being extant at Kirk Hallam in the Domesday Book, but one must have been founded shortly afterwards, as it was in existence by the reign of Henry II in the 12th century. The present church, dedicated to All Saints, is a small building, consisting only of chancel, nave and low embattled tower at the west end. On each side of the south entrance there is a piece of Norman beak-head moulding, which formed part of an old chancel arch. The Norman font appears to be only other original relic within the church. It rests on a base of Early English mouldings. There are Decorated and Perpendicular features, but there have been several alterations and restorations carried out during the late 18th and 19th century.' (1) 'All Saints' Church is a small, aisleless church with Decorated straight-headed chancel windows, sedilia and piscina. There is a Perpendicular west tower that is short and ashlar-faced. Minor restoration work was carried out by GE Street in 1859. A Norman font and two Norman beakheads are preserved in the church.' (2) 'Church of All Saints. Grade B. Simple medieval church consisting of nave, chancel and west tower; largely 14-15th century. 7th or 18th century altar rails. 12th century font.' (4) Church piscina has been photographed. (7) A bell in All Saint's Church is of historical significance considering that it dates from circa 1500. (8) From The National Heritage List for England: 'SK 44 SE; 3/43 PARISH OF ILKESTON, LADYWOOD ROAD, KIRK HALLAM (North Side) Church of All Saints 26.9.63 I Parish church. C14, C15, restoration C19. Coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings. Welsh-slate roofs with stone-coped gables. Moulded coped parapets to nave. West tower, nave and chancel. Moulded plinth, except on the north side of the nave. The west tower has a west window of two cusped arched lights under a square head, set in a chamfered surround. The south side has a lower bell opening of 2-lights in a chamfered square headed surround. Second bell opening above has two cusped arched lights under a square head and set in a chamfered surround. Similar bell openings on the other three sides. Moulded string course above and battlemented parapet. South side of nave of three bays, with diagonal buttresses and one intermediate buttress. Steeply gabled C19 south porch has a heavy moulded arch on stumpy half columns. To the left is a 2-light C14 window in a stepped and wave moulded surround with square head and C19 tracery. Two similar windows to the right. The chancel has two more similar windows flanking a single chamfered priests doorway. Much rebuilt in the C19. Diagonal buttresses at the east end of the chancel. Three-light east window with an almost triangular head and wave moulded surround. Tracery of three trefoiled lancets and three trefoils. The north wall of the chancel has no windows. The north wall of the nave has no buttresses and has two windows similar to those on the south side, but entirely C19 and with roll moulded surrounds. Set into the walls of the south porch are two C12 beakheads. Steeply pointed south doorway with continuous wave moulding. C19 plank door with iron strap hinges. Tower arch of two moulded orders, the inner order dying into the imposts. C19 double chamfered chancel arch with hoodmould on both sides with foliage stops. C19 boarded chancel roof with cusping and quatrefoil frieze. Nave roof has tie beams and arched trusses on corbels. C12 circular font with intersecting arcading, set on a C19 octagonal base. Dec piscina and triple sedilia with cusped tracery. C19 stone reredos in the form of a gothic arcade. Painted texts either side of the east window, placed above corbels. Monuments: Three tablets on the north wall of the chancel, to Valentine Stead + 1765, Ann Stead + 1810, Francis Newdigate + 1762. C19 rood screen, Dec style, with foliage frieze and cresting. Stained glass: C19 glass in the three chancel windows. A south nave window of 1910, and a north nave window of 1909, the latter an 'arts and crafts' design of 1910 by Bernard Sleigh of Birmingham - one of very few windows by Sleigh who was better known as a wood engraver. Painted hatchment above the chancel arch. Listing NGR: SK4585740552.' (9)