 The Church is located on Angram Road in the village of Long Marston [YO26 7LR], which is on the B1224 road, 7 miles west of York and 6 miles east of Wetherby [A1M].
All Saints' Church will be open during the summer of 2012.
The Church is open regularly for worship on the first Sunday at 6.30 pm and on the second, third and fourth Sundays at 11.00 am with occasional morning services on the first Sunday.
Priest-in-Charge:
Curate: Revd Roy Shaw
HISTORY OF THE CHURCH
The Church dates from 1180 with much of its fabric remaining.
The villages of Hutton Wandesley and Long Marston are mentioned in the Doomsday Book. Hutton Wandesley had 6 carucates of taxable land whilst Long Marston was the larger with 23. The Church marks the boundary between the two villages.
Following the decimation of the local population by the Black Death of the 14th Century, the original church a mile or so to the east fell into ruins as did the chapel on the present site.
The Church was granted parochial status in 1400 by Archbishop Richard Le Scrope, when building materials were brought from the original ruinous church on the Parish boundary between Angram and Hutton Wandesley. This material was then used to restore the decayed chapel in the existing churchyard.
The North Transept was added in the 19th Century and more recent re-ordering took place in 2005.
The exterior walls show the reuse of old materials including brown river cobbles and dressed stone. It is also evident where earlier doorways were situated.
The main doorway is credited to the Norman period and consists of three orders of round arches on two nook shafts with carved capitals, and an inner shaft with plain capitals.
The late Norman Arcade to the North Aisle has three bays with round arches carried on circular piers with plain moulded capitals.
The original windows were of a simple inwardly splayed form with narrow external openings and one of these original windows remains in the Nave.
Other windows in the Nave have lintels made from ancient tombstones where the inscriptions can still be seen.
The West Tower dates from the 15th Century and is of very plain ashlar Tadcaster Magnesian limestone. The Tower contains three bells:
1] Gloria in Excelsis Deo [1699]
2] A Medieval Bell [inscription illegible]
3] Populum Vovo [1728] - cast by Edward Seller of York and the gift of Marmaduke Buck who was the Rector from
1705 to 1759.
  The Reredos, beautifully carved in stone depicts 'The Last Supper' with Christ blessing the cup surrounded by his disciples. The oak panelling, marble pulpit, brass lecturn and brass communion rail are all of this period.
In 2005 work was completed to re-order the Transept and create a multi-functional room that can be used for meetings, display facilities and education resources as well as being used on occasions for simple worship. The Church has been brought right up to the 21st Century with the addition of a disabled toilet and small kitchen area.
The Church has been described as a 'Significant building'. [Sir Nikolaus Pevsner]
Henrietta Thompson, the Mother of General Wolfe [Captor of Quebec] was baptised and married in the Church.
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