Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a late medieval church, likely dating from the 15th century, and extensively restored in the late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with a stone slate roof. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a south aisle, and a chancel with a south chapel, all designed in the Perpendicular style.

The three-stage west tower is largely of 19th-century masonry externally, lacking buttresses. It has a two-light traceried west window, a small rectangular window on each side of the second stage, and belfry windows of two cusped lights with double-chamfered reveals. A moulded cornice and embattled parapet top the tower. An external stair turret, built from worn medieval masonry, rises to the second stage. It has a chamfered plinth and two offsets.

The two-bay nave has a buttressed north wall with 19th-century square-headed, Perpendicular-style windows: three lights in the first bay and one and two lights in the second. The restored south aisle has two bays with buttresses. The gabled medieval porch to the first bay features a two-centred arched outer doorway with a hollow-moulded surround, restored gable coping, and corner pinnacles. It is roofed by three massive chamfered transverse arches. An inner doorway has two orders of chamfer, leading to an 18th-century door with six fielded panels. To the right of the porch are a 19th-century two-light window with cusped tracery and a three-light mullioned window. An embattled parapet extends over the aisle and continues over the three-bay chapel, where the centre bay has a priest’s door with a depressed arched lintel and cavetto-moulded surround, and the outer bays have 19th-century three-light windows.

The chancel has a restored Perpendicular east window with a transom, ten lights above and five below, with remains of a drip mould.

Inside, the three-bay aisle arcade has double-chamfered arches on octagonal columns. The chancel arch has two orders of hollow chamfer. A similar three-bay arcade separates the chancel from the chapel. The chancel has a coffered ceiling with moulded beams supported by short wall-posts, roll-moulded secondary beams, and carved bosses. A blocked doorway is visible in the north wall of the chancel. A 15th-century font sits on a pedestal, octagonal with raised carved shields and incised Latin script on the cardinal sides.