Church of All Saints, Ledsham

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican building in the village of Ledsham, West Yorkshire, England, some 10 miles (16 km) east of Leeds.

[1] The stone used in the fabric of the church is a combination of Thornhill Rock Sandstone and Dolomitic Limestone, both of which were quarried locally.

[10] Pevsner suggested that it was possibly a long door between two floors, but Taylor thinks that its odd size might be to do with a procession into the old area of the church, and enables a large cross to be carried in.

[14] The stones of the wall are sandstone and have been laid at angles similar to other earlier churches at Escomb, Jarrow and Corbridge.

[15] When Stephen Glynne visited the church in 1862, he was effusive about the windows and architecture, but he also noted that the churchyard was "beautifully shaded by trees".

The entry in the National Pipe Organ Register describes it as "a rare survivor from the workshop of Isaac Abbot in 1881 with an exquisite tonal scheme and sensitively designed for a difficult location.

[24][25][7][26] The church is noted as a rare survivor from the Anglo-Saxon period in Yorkshire, and it has been suggested that it was the ecclesiastical centre of the ancient forest of Loidis.