Church Of All Saints

Church. The Church of All Saints largely dates to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the late 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, and further work in the 19th century. It is constructed of ashlar stone with slate roofs. The church comprises a west tower, a four-bay aisled nave, north and south porches, and a five-bay chancel.

The west tower has a moulded plinth and diagonal buttresses with offsets. Belfry openings are pointed, with two lights and cusped tracery under stopped hood-moulds. The embattled parapet has crocketed corner pinnacles. The west door has a four-centred head with continuous mouldings and a stopped hood-mould. The west window is pointed, with three lights and Perpendicular tracery under a hood-mould with beast stops. The nave has a chamfered plinth, buttresses with offsets, and three-light windows with ogee tracery in square-headed, chamfered surrounds. The clerestory features three-light windows with Perpendicular tracery under four-centred heads. A pointed, double-chamfered south door is set within a hood-mould. A hollow-chamfered string-course runs below the eaves, and the gable has a raised coping with a cross finial. The chancel has a high chamfered plinth, buttresses with offsets, a two-light pointed window with Geometrical tracery to the west, and a 19th-century lancet with cusped tracery and a stopped hood-mould to the east. The east window is pointed with intersecting tracery, containing a sexfoil at the apex, and has a stopped hood-mould.

The interior features a 14th-century south arcade of pointed double-chamfered arches dying into lozenge-section piers, and a 15th-century north arcade with octagonal piers on raised bases with moulded capitals, carrying pointed double-chamfered arches. The nave roof is likely from the 17th century, featuring a kerb-rafter construction with tie-beams, struts, arch-braces, double side-purlins, queen posts, pendants, raking struts, collars, and ornate, fretted, cusped and ogee tracery filling each truss. The chancel arch has attached shafts; one capital is 12th-century scalloped with volutes, the other is a 12th-century cushion capital with cable and leaf ornament. The arch itself is rebuilt as a four-centred arch of two square orders, with the inner order enriched with ball ornament. A squint to the south of the chancel arch has a chamfered pointed opening to the chancel, with a lintel shouldered on ogee curves. A 12th-century tub font has lozenge ornament rising to loops, surmounted by a cable moulding at the rim. A child's effigy is set in the north aisle wall, and there are recumbent effigies of a couple partly entwined in tracery, at the east end of the same aisle. A tomb recess with a hood-mould is partly concealed in the south aisle wall. The east window is signed by Wailes, dated 1854, and there are 19th-century box pews throughout the church.