Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a cruciform aisled church, largely dating from the 15th century, with a crossing tower from around 1300. It was built in the Perpendicular style for Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln, who was a native of Crofton. The church was restored in around 1875 by Leake and Denison. The church comprises a nave, a south porch, north and south transepts, a crossing tower, and a chancel. It has a plinth and a continuous band at a low level, with diagonal buttresses at all outer corners. The four-bay nave is articulated by offset buttresses, topped with grotesque gargoyles. It features two-light windows with cusped lights and panel tracery (some renewed), with hoodmoulds and carved face stops. A gabled porch with a groined vault stands to the south, with a two-centred arched inner doorway of two orders and broach stops. A similar north doorway is blocked. The transepts and the two-bay chancel each have two-light windows. All gable ends are coped with cross finials, and the church has a continuous parapet with Gothic roll-moulded coping. A semicircular projection is set into the angle between the nave and the south transept, containing a low, square-headed doorway which leads to the crossing tower. The tower has a single cusped light at ridge level to each face, and a two-light belfry window above, with a clock face on the south side. The tower has an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles, dating back to the 1875 restoration.

Internally, the roof features 19th-century arch-braced trusses on stone corbels. The tower rests on four double-chamfered two-centred arches of two orders. A two-centred arched doorway once led to a rood loft. The sanctuary contains a 15th-century piscina with a trefoil carved head in a two-centred arched recess. The north transept holds a notable monument erected in 1739 to Mary Meyer by Paul Meyer, and there is another in the chancel, a large marble monument to Sir Henry Wright Wilson of Crofton Hall, erected in 1836. Furnishings include a 15th-century octagonal font with shields set in quatrefoils on each face, 19th-century pews, two funeral hatchments, and an organ set into the south transept around 1908. The remains of two Saxon crosses are also present.

The church is prominently situated on the top of a hill, and tradition holds that it was moved from a site at the bottom of the hill around 1430 by Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln.