Church of All Hallows

The Church of All Hallows is a 13th-century chancel with 14th-century flanking chapels, which were lengthened in the 19th century. The west tower likely dates to the 15th century, potentially a result of an indulgence granted in 1485 for church repairs. The nave and aisles may also be from this period, although the windows appear to be early 16th century, and the nave roof is dated 1522, with battlements and pinnacles added in 1872-7. A 19th-century south porch completes the exterior. The church is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and ashlar with pitched stone slate roofs, the aisle roofs being lean-to.

The chancel features north and south lancet windows, partially obscured externally by the 19th-century chapel extensions. The east end has three windows: two flanking ones are round-arched with simple bar tracery, while the central window is now a three-light Perpendicular window with cusped tracery, originally three stepped lancets with a relieving arch. Clerestory and aisle windows are also three-light, with uninterrupted mullions; clerestory windows are oblong, and aisle windows are topped with three-centred heads and hoodmoulds.

The tower has diagonal buttresses with multiple set-offs and gargoyles at the top, a crenellated parapet, and crocketed pinnacles. A west door is set in a deeply moulded two-centred arch, above a three-light window containing Perpendicular tracery within a two-centred arch and hoodmould. Large three-light bell openings are set in two-centred openings with hoodmoulds.

Inside, the nave has a five-bay arcade with octagonal piers, moulded capitals, and moulded voussoirs. A double-chamfered tower arch blends into the imposts, and a double-chamfered chancel arch sits on moulded capitals. The chancel has a two-bay north arcade with double-chamfered voussoirs and moulded corbels, and a three-bay south arcade with capitals decorated with Tudor roses and fleurs-de-lys.

The nave boasts a particularly fine timber ceiling with an inscription around the cornice, naming Geferay Daystre as the joiner and the date 1522; it has a shallow pitch, all moulded beams and elaborately ornamented bosses. The chancel has a hammer-beam roof, apparently from the 19th century. A good Perpendicular timber traceried screen divides the north chapel. Notable is an outstanding 17th-century joinery font cover, with Gothic survival tracery and three tiers of perforated canopies.

Good 15th-century stained glass is present in the east window and the north chapel, restored (and possibly re-set) in 1879 by the 5th Earl of Dartmouth. The church contains a Fenay family pew from 1605, an early 18th-century gilded eagle lectern, and various monuments, the finest being to Matthew Wentworth (d 1574), William Lister (d 1701), and Sir Arthur Kaye (d 1726).