The slab has truncated ends and near vertical sides, all plain.

A (top): A central ridge, standing proud and slightly bevelled in section, runs axially from a pair of inward facing animal heads carved in high relief. The ridge tapers towards the jowls of these creatures. The end beasts have domed brows and a deep incision to mark the base of the jowl. The eyes are incised circles. The heads lie on a plain, flat perimeter moulding. From the sides of the jowl, contoured fin-like extensions merge with the panel's ornament. The panels on either side of the ridge are slightly curved in section and differ in width. Each is filled with continuous animal ornament, but the designs vary.

In the left-hand panel, the top is filled by the profile head of a beast, its snout against the end beast's brow. An incised lentoid eye fits within a domed brow. In the corner is a stubby, hollowed ear. The snout has a triple nose-fold and a smaller lower jaw, from which a median-incised interlacing strand issues. On the neck are folds of a mane and a contour line on the outer edge only. Between the neck and the edge of the panel are three small pellets. The inch-wide ribbon body descends through median-incised interlace which bifurcates about the neck. When it re-emerges from behind another small quadruped, the upper edge of the body has become the lower one. The hind leg has an incised, scrolled joint. The tail is median-incised and travels down the panel before returning to the head end. Below this beast is a smaller profile quadruped. The fore leg has a scrolled joint; the leg either breaks off or extends forwards as a narrow, median-incised interlace strand. The head is damaged by a transverse cut but displays an incised lentoid eye. The ear is stubby and the plain jowl closed. The hind leg extends backwards and has a small depression on the thigh. The only sign of a contoured edge is on the neck. Next is a large profile ribbon beast facing left. The head has a nose-fold, stubby ear and incised lentoid eye. The neck has a mane. The body has double edging along its length. The rump is held high above a broad ham-like hind leg. The fore leg lies in a crouched posture with a scrolled joint and three-toed paw. The median-incised tail swings forward in opposition to the backward reaching hind leg.

Over a third of the right-hand panel is occupied by a York winged beast, its contoured, interlaced ribbon body looping through the end beast's 'fin'. The head lies near the outer edge of the centre of the panel and is turned back. It has a stubby ear, incised lentoid eye and triple nose-fold. The neck has a double outline. The wing is also contoured and springs from a scrolled joint. The remainder of the panel is filled by two elongated profile beasts, their ribbon contoured bodies overlapping. Their hind legs trail backwards, their rumps held high. The fore legs have scrolled joints and three-toed paws. The rear-most beast has an extended ribbon ear, median-incised, flowing back to the first animal's nape, after locking the bodies and rear legs. The fore-most beast has a mane and stubby ear. Both have triple nose-folds and lentoid eyes.

Even with end-stones, the monument must have covered a small grave, like Minster 41. The quality of the carving is high, with deep cutting and subtle interplay of relief and incised work. The repertoire of animal ornament and the ridge with terminal heads place it within the York Metropolitan School but there are distinctive features. The ridge is not a cross like most of the school's slabs. Neither is the ornament of the two panels symmetrical, either across the ridge or within the panel itself. This variety can be seen in the grave-covers, St Denys 2 (Ills. 209–13), Minster 39 (Ill. 165). Indeed, the latter and Minster 40 (Ills. 169–70) are probably by the same hand as the All Saints stone: the animals, cutting, and layout are very similar, and the ridge is handled originally too. Whereas the uniformity of most of the York slabs suggests the use of templates, this piece has a freedom of arrangement contrary to that practice. The animals, like those of Minster 39, are attenuated, there is no collar, and the details of the head are peculiar. Even though the body extensions and the torsos themselves interlace, the impression is of coherent animals rather than zoomorphic geometry. It is the work of an accomplished sculptor, au fait with Scandinavian fashions. The fin-like extensions to the end beasts are paralleled in St Mary Castlegate 2 (Ill. 297) and Minster 34 (Ill. 147), and, faintly, in Lastingham 1 (Ill. 574). The attenuated forms of the animals, with trailing hind legs, are found both in Insular and Scandinavian zoomorphic ornament and need not necessarily derive from the Jellinge style (Henry 1970, 194, fig. 31). The nose-folds are a Jellinge trait, however.