Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with additions and restoration in the 1876-80 period by J. L. Pearson. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and has plain tile roofs. The church measures approximately 52 feet long by 15 feet wide, representing essentially a mid-12th century building with later alterations.

The exterior features a moulded plinth and a corbel table with carved figures. The apse displays a band of scrolling ornament linking the sills. A gabled bellcote is situated at the east end of the nave, featuring a single round arch. The shallow, gabled south porch was substantially restored by Pearson in 1880, when the church was roofless and overgrown. Its portal exhibits four orders of colonettes, heavily weathered carvings of medallions, and foliage scrolls, with zigzag and simplified beakhead decoration on the arches. The latticework gable dates from 1880, and a row of corbels runs across its gable. The south side of the nave has a single, small round-arched window. The south side of the chancel has a three-light window with geometrical tracery, while the apse features three round-arched windows with nook shafts, cushion capitals, and roll-moulded arches, divided by pilaster buttresses. The north side of the chancel is blank, and the north side of the nave has a blocked round-arched doorway and a wide round-arched window set high up. Two narrow round-arched windows are located at the west end of the nave, one above the other.

The interior displays elaborately ornamented arches between the nave and chancel and the chancel and apse. A tunnel vault covers the chancel, while a rib vault covers the apse. The transverse arch has three roll mouldings and two ridges, and the apse vault is supported on half-columns with carved capitals. An aumbry recess is located on the north side of the chancel. The font has a tapering square bowl on a square base with colonettes. A grave slab in the northwest corner of the nave, of Anglo-Norman origin, depicts a chalice and paten resting on an altar, accompanied by a blessing hand.