The church of All Saints has been at the heart of Pocklington's township and life for almost 1,400 years.
Known locally as the Cathedral of the Wolds, All Saints is an important Grade I listed building, dating mainly between 1200 and 1450. All Saints is one of only a handful of churches that can pinpoint its foundation back to Saxon times.
All Saints Church with its 30-metre high tower is an unmissable feature at the heart of the town – and very handy for all the shops in the market place, and surrounding town. The church clock, dating from 1841, has an unusual mechanism in that it uses only one train to strike the hours and chime the quarter hours. It was restored in 2004. Only one other church clock with a similar mechanism is known, that of St. John’s Church in Keswick, Cumbria.
In the churchyard stands the Sotheby Cross. John Soteby was born in Pocklington in 1390, and the Sotheby Cross was made for him or in his memory in the 15th century.
It was rediscovered buried in the churchyard in 1835, since when it had stood inside the church. In 2006 it was reinstated in the churchyard, its location determined by reference to a drawing in an architectural journal from the 1880s.
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