Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a largely medieval church with 12th-century origins, significantly altered across several centuries. The structure includes 13th-century north and south aisles, a 15th-century south-west tower, a chancel rebuilt in 1866 by G.E. Street, and a 19th-century south porch.

The church is composed of a three-stage south-west tower, a four-bay aisled nave incorporating a north transept and south porch, and a three-bay chancel with an attached north vestry. The tower has a plinth with diagonal buttresses, a slit window, two-light pointed belfry openings with Perpendicular tracery under a hood-mould, and a crenellated parapet with corner finials. The nave features a plinth, buttresses, and square-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery. A pointed, chamfered south door is set within a hollow-moulded order on nook-shafts with nail-head detail, protected by a boarded wooden door. A pointed west window features cusped Y-tracery, and the gables are raised and coped. The chancel has a moulded plinth, buttresses, a stepped string, three two-light pointed windows with plate tracery under hood-moulds, a pointed chamfered priest’s door also under a hood-mould, and a small blank pointed window above it. The pointed three-light east window exhibits curvilinear tracery under a hood-mould with foliage stops, topped with a raised coped gable and a flory cross finial. The north transept accommodates a small round-headed slit window, a pointed window with Y-tracery, and a three-light square-headed window with Perpendicular tracery.

Inside, a pointed doorway leads to the tower chamber, and a pointed double-chamfered arch opens to the north tower arch resting on moulded capitals and demi-octagonal responds. The north arcade is pointed, with double-chamfered arches on cylindrical, quatrefoil and square piers, the latter with attached filleted shafts on moulded bases; the easternmost arch is 12th-century, leading to the former transept, and features two chamfered round orders, with water-leaf decoration on the east respond. The south arcade consists of three pointed double-chamfered arches on octagonal capitals and piers with moulded bases. The chancel features a fine east window designed in 1866 by William Morris, depicting the Crucifixion scene with mourning saints and the Virgin Mary, along with scenes from the Nativity. A 13th-century goblet-shaped font is also present. A memorial in the south aisle commemorates Thomas Robinson, who was murdered by a poacher, and his brother, who died accidentally. A brass memorial tablet remembers Thomas Tryll, who died in 1591. A small, recently excavated stone with a carving of a bearded figure, believed to represent Christ, lies in a disused tomb recess in the chancel.