Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a building of medieval origins, initially dating to the 12th century, with significant remodelling in the 15th century, completed in 1495. The chancel was rebuilt in 1852-8, and the church underwent a general 19th-century restoration. Constructed primarily of ashlar with a lead chancel roof, it is built in the Perpendicular style.

The church consists of a tall, two-stage west tower, a five-bay nave with lean-to aisles, a south porch, a three-bay chancel with two-bay aisles, and a single-bay vestry in the south-east corner. The west tower features diagonal buttresses and a moulded doorway with a deeply set, hollow-chamfered traceried window above. It has two-light transomed, traceried bell-chamber openings and crenellated parapets with corner gargoyles and pinnacles. The nave and aisles are low, with two-light square-headed clerestory windows and three-light arched aisle windows. A blocked doorway is present on the north side of the west end. The chancel is taller, with low projecting chapels that are similarly designed with three-light windows. A blocked south chapel door also exists. Low buttresses rise as square pinnacles on the aisle walls, connected back to the wall by flying buttresses in the form of angels, grotesque figures, and beasts. Crenellated parapets extend to the aisles and nave.

Inside, a five-bay double-chamfered arcade sits on circular piers, possibly reusing older components. Perpendicular roofs with decorative bosses cover the nave and aisles. A chancel arch and a north chapel arcade are on semi-circular responds, remaining from the crossing that previously supported a central tower. A blocked rood stair is visible on the south wall of the south chapel. Perpendicular chancel and chapel screens, all slightly different and altered, exist. Two medieval shields are incorporated into the east window of the south chapel. A tomb in the south chapel commemorates Sir Thomas Wentworth, who died in 1675, and his wife, featuring white marble recumbent effigies and a memorial with colonnettes supporting an open segmental pediment, including a shield and urns. A sandstone cartouche in the chancel is dedicated to John Phipps of Pule Hill, who died in 1718, and features winged angels at the top corners and a skull and cross bones at the bottom. Box pews from 1832-5 complete the interior.