All Saints' Church, Whitefield

All Saints’ Church stands on high ground in Stand, Whitefield, a tall stone building with a tower and embattled parapets. Commissioned after Waterloo to hold 1,800 worshippers, it was designed by Charles Barry on land donated by the Earl of Derby. Barry’s first church, it resembles his demolished St Matthew’s in Manchester but adds a tower instead of a spire. The church is built in millstone grit with a fanciful Gothic style and a rectangular plan ending in a canted apse. Inside, Perpendicular piers carry three-sided galleries under vaulted plaster ceilings. The east window’s stained glass is by D. Evans of Shrewsbury, while later windows are by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, and A. L. Moore. Visitors find the 1827 organ moved in 1880, now replaced by a three-manual instrument rebuilt in 1997. A ring of eight bells cast in 1912 hangs in the tower, and monuments include a 1826 Sievier sculpture of a lady on a chaise longue. The 1930s adornment added choir stalls and clergy desks designed by Lancaster architects Austin and Paley.