Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church with origins dating back to the 11th and 12th centuries, though the tower retains features from that period. The nave and chancel were constructed in the 13th and 14th centuries, with a north transept added during the same period. Significant alterations were made to the tower, including the addition of a west door. Restorations in 1873 and 1874, undertaken by W Scott Champion, involved extensive rebuilding of the nave, chancel, and transept.

The church is built of limestone and ironstone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. It consists of a west tower, a three-bay nave with a single-bay north transept (now a vestry), and a two-bay chancel. The two-stage tower has large, diagonally offset buttresses and a chamfered plinth. The west door is exceptionally fine, featuring a pointed arch composed of four orders with fillet mouldings on five orders of filleted shafts, naturalistic foliate capitals, a hood-mould, and headstops. String courses are present. The buttresses that flank the door each contain recessed 13th-century carved relief panels; the panel on the right depicts an angel and five nude figures, while the panel on the left features figures that are heavily weathered. The tower's first stage has lancet windows on the north and south sides. A string course is cut by a pointed two-light west window with 19th-century geometrical tracery, the original hood-mould, and headstops. A clockface was added in 1896. Square-headed two-light belfry openings contain 19th-century pierced ashlar tablets. A moulded string-course leads to a coped parapet. A low pyramidal spire topped with a wrought-iron finial completes the tower. The south side of the nave has restored lancets and 19th-century pointed two-light windows with curvilinear tracery, hood-moulds, and mainly original headstops. The north side has a pointed two-light window with 19th-century geometrical tracery, an original hood-mould, and headstops. The transept has a 19th-century pointed, chamfered north door with a traceried single-light window above, topped by a pedimented, coped gable. It also has 14th-century square-headed two-light trefoiled east and west windows. Romanesque moulded stone has been re-used in the north wall. The chancel has a round-arched, chamfered north door with a plain hood-mould and carved stops, and restored pointed two-light windows with 19th-century tracery, hood-moulds, and headstops; some of these are original. A string course and coped parapet run throughout the church.

Inside, the small, round-headed tower arch has roll moulding and restored imposts. A small, blocked basket-arched opening sits above the arch, framed by chamfered jambs. The former opening to the transept displays a double-chamfered segmental arch with chamfered jambs and plain imposts. A pointed piscina is located on the south side of the chancel. The church contains 19th-century fittings. A former medieval font is located in the tower, characterized by a plain octagonal bowl and a cylindrical shaft.