All Saints Church, Orton

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All Saints Church is the Anglican parish church in the village of Orton, Cumbria. It is an active church in the Diocese of Carlisle, within the Appleby deanery, and its benefice is united with St Oswald, Revenstonedale, and St James, Tebay. The building is Grade II* listed. The oldest parts of the church date from the late 12th century, the tower from the early 16th century, and the porch from 1607. In 1877–78, the chancel and north aisle were rebuilt by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin. In 2006–07 the tower was lime-rendered to give it a white appearance. The church is built of stone with roofs of lead or slate, and its plan includes a three-bay nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, an aisleless chancel, and a west tower. The south aisle is wider than the north, and the tower has three stages with a castellated parapet. Windows along the aisles have three lights, and the chancel has lancet windows. Inside is a 1662 octagonal font with the initials DW and MO, and a trefoil-arched piscina in the south aisle end. A Royal arms panel dated 1695 is above the entrance. The Victorian pulpit is octagonal on a stone base. Stained glass includes the east window by Clayton and Bell, and chancel glass by Abbot and Company (1897). In the south aisle there are windows by Beatrice Whistler (1892), F. G. Christmas (c.1892) and Stanley Murray Scott (1959). Memorials in the church date from the 18th and 19th centuries. The two-manual organ is from about 1878 by Wilkinson and Son, overhauled in 1995. There is a ring of eight bells; the oldest, 1711 Rudhall I, and seven others were cast in 1917 by John Taylor & Co. Three bells are unused (one c.1529 by John Woolley; two from 1637, possibly by William Oldfield I).