All Saints Church, Higher Walton

All Saints Church, Higher Walton
All Saints Church, Higher Walton, from the southeast
All Saints Church, Higher Walton Location in the Borough of South Ribble
Coordinates: 53°44′27″N 2°38′27″W / 53.7408°N 2.6407°W / 53.7408; -2.6407
OS grid reference	SD 578,274
Location	Higher Walton, Lancashire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	All Saints, Higher Walton
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	27 February 1984
Architect(s)	E. G. Paley Paley and Austin
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1861
Completed	1871
Specifications
Materials	Rock-faced stone, slate roofs
Administration
Parish	All Saints, Higher Walton
Deanery	Leyland
Archdeaconry	Blackburn
Diocese	Blackburn
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Simon John Hunt
Assistant priest(s)	David Woodhouse
Laity
Reader(s)	Margaret Hunt
Churchwarden(s)	Janet Blackledge, Keith Houston

All Saints Church is in Blackburn Road in the village of Higher Walton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leyland, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

The ecclesiastical parish of All Saints, Higher Walton, was formed in 1865 out of the parish of St Leonard, Walton-le-Dale. The church, standing on an eminence overlooking the village, was erected in 1861–2 from the designs of the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley at a cost of £6,000 (equivalent to £530,000 in 2015). It provided seating for 604 people. The site was given by Miles Rodgett, and several stained glass windows in the church are erected to the memory of members of the Rodgett family. Paley donated a stained glass window depicting the healing of the sick man. The steeple was added in 1871 by the partnership of Paley and Austin.

All Saints is constructed in rock-faced stone, and it has slated steeply-pitched roofs. The architectural style is Early English. Its plan consists of a nave and a chancel in one range, a south aisle with a porch, a north transept and sacristy. The chancel ends in a three-sided apse. At the west end is a tower with diagonal buttresses, a north stair turret, and a broach spire. On the west side of the tower is a three-light window, and in the upper part is a two-light bell opening on each side. The spire has a clock face under a gablet on each cardinal side. At the east end of the aisle is a wheel window. The other windows have two lights.