Church of All Saints

This parish church dates from the 12th through 16th centuries, with restorations in 1853 and around 1870. It is built of coursed, squared stone and rubble stone with a chamfered stone plinth. The roofs are shallow-pitched and covered in lead, with embattled parapets to the nave and chancel clerestories and tower. A coved stringcourse features fine large 15th-century gargoyles. The aisles have plain parapets with ridgeback copings. The church comprises a west tower, a clerestoried nave with north and south aisles, a lower chancel with a short north aisle, and north and south porches.

The Tower

The three-stage western tower has 12th-century origins in its first two stages, with a slightly narrower 15th-century bell stage above. Massive stepped angle buttresses mark the western corners. The west elevation has a flush semicircular-headed door with a 13th-century double lancet above. The north and south elevations have blank first stages. Above, to the west, is a louvred late 12th-century semicircular-headed window with attached nook shafts and a chevron moulded arch. Similar windows appear on the north and south elevations, though the north window is much restored and features a roll moulded arch. The west elevation's next stage has a flat-headed three-light window with ogee headed lights. Above this sits a 15th-century pointed two-light bell opening with cusped panel tracery and a returned hoodmould. Similar openings appear on all other sides, and a metal clock face is mounted on the north side. The coved string course features central gargoyles, and the embattled parapets have corner steeple pinnacles.

North Aisle and Nave

The west elevation of the north aisle contains a pointed two-light window with 19th-century tracery and a returned hoodmould, along with a continuous sill band. Set high in the wall on the south side is a Saxon stone carved with interlace decoration. A stepped, gableted angle buttress with a large angled gargoyle above stands at the north corner.

The north elevation of the aisle features a 19th-century Early English style gabled porch to the west, with a double chamfered doorcase and a 14th-century cusped ogee headed inner door fitted with a medieval studded wooden door. To the east are two flat-headed three-light 15th-century windows with casement moulded surrounds and cusped headed lights with incised spandrels. A stepped gableted buttress stands to the east of each. Above are three smaller similar two-light clerestory windows.

The aisle continues eastward against the chancel and has a similar three-light 15th-century window with a large stepped gableted buttress to the east and two early 19th-century slate memorial plaques to the west. Three clerestory windows similar to those on the nave, each partly blocked by the aisle roof, sit above. The east elevation of the aisle has an angled gableted buttress to the north and a two-light window with cusped lights and a relieving arch.

Chancel

The chancel features a three-light panel tracery east window with a segmental head and returned hoodmould, with a slate memorial of around 1746 below. The south elevation of the chancel displays three unusual, very tall 15th-century two-light flat-headed windows with central transoms. The lower section of each has reticulated-type tracery, while the upper section has cusped four-centred arched lights and incised spandrels, all set in a deeply chamfered moulded surround. A large stepped buttress stands between the eastern two windows. At the junction with the south aisle to the west is a projecting staircase turret with a stone roof and an attached slate plaque of around 1759.

South Aisle

The south nave aisle has angled corner buttresses at either end and a central stepped buttress on the south elevation. The east elevation features a 19th-century pointed three-light reticulated tracery window with a returned hoodmould, copying the two 14th-century windows on the south elevation of the aisle, though these have ogee headed hoodmoulds. A gabled 19th-century porch similar to the north aisle porch stands to the west, and the west elevation has a 19th-century two-light reticulated tracery window. Three 15th-century two-light clerestory windows similar to those on the north appear above.

Interior

The interior features three-bay north and south arcades with double-chamfered pointed arches on plain columns with crudely moulded capitals, continuous chamfered hoodmoulds, and banded spur-like corbels at either end. A similar two-bay arcade stands to the north of the chancel. A 12th-century semicircular-headed chancel arch has nailhead decoration on the impost blocks, above which is a blocked 12th-century semicircular-headed door. A pointed, continuously moulded 15th-century arch with moulded capitals opens into the tower. A small chamfered pointed doorcase at the east end of the south aisle against the chancel arch leads into a spiral staircase to the former rood screen.

The roofs are mostly 19th-century and shallow-pitched. The south aisle roof is supported above the arcade by a moulded 18th-century cornice. The south aisle windows and south chancel windows all have interior mouldings. Those in the south aisle also feature carved label stops to hoodmoulds, and the eastern window has crocketed nodding ogee headed niches at the base of each jamb.

The chancel contains a 19th-century coloured marble and carved stone reredos and 14th-century style timber choir stalls and altar. The north arcade has 20th-century wooden screens across the arches. Beyond to the east is a small blocked pointed original doorcase. A 19th-century Decorated style octagonal stone pulpit features figures of saints on coloured marble backgrounds on the sides, set on a tapering stem, with a crocketed, gableted wooden tester above.

The nave has a mixture of original 17th-century oak pews and 20th-century copies. At the west end of the nave stands a 13th-century stone font with a moulded octagonal bowl on a circular stem and four colonnettes. The north aisle contains a 19th-century organ.

Monuments and Memorials

Throughout the church are numerous monuments. The chancel contains a small brass memorial in an alabaster surround to Johannes Porter, who died in 1636, and a carved marble memorial to Guy Winterbottom, who died in 1917. In the south aisle at the east end of the staircase is a good coloured marble memorial to Leonard Osbrooke, who died in 1762, with a classical aedicule. To the south is a wall memorial of around 1680 with a shouldered surround topped by two sculls and an illegible inscription. The south wall of the aisle has two slate and white marble memorials: one with a weeping woman at the top to Joseph Walker, who died in 1801, and another with a draped urn at the top to Elizabeth Walker, who died in 1802. The west wall has two similar wall memorials—a very simple one of around 1864 and one with a draped urn to John Cocks, who died in 1810, signed by Cartwright of Donington. There is also a carved alabaster plaque to Colonel Chandos Pole, who died in 1900.

Inside the tower on either side are three small, simple marble and slate memorials, all to the Roby family, dating from about 1840 to 1860. There is also a presentation of the clock in 1890 in memory of Edward Holden of Aston Hall. To the south of the tower arch is a brass roll of honour, and to the north is an early 19th-century marble memorial.

The west end of the north aisle has two wall memorials: one in slate from around 1837 and another with a marble plaque in a slate gothic aedicule to James Sutton of about 1830. To the east is a large collection of memorials, including an early 15th-century alabaster chest tomb with two life-size effigies and a base decorated with angels holding shields. Above this is a wall memorial of around 1777 to Mary Shuttleworth, with a decorated oval plaque topped by a draped urn on a bracketed cornice, and another to Antonia Clowes, who died in 1849, featuring a white dove set against a slate background and signed by White of London. To the east is a simple plaque with an elaborate shield above to Jacob Shuttleworth, who died in 1744, and below is an oval slate memorial with a draped urn over to Rosamond Holden, who died in 1820. There is also a small 17th-century plaque in a plain surround with a large painted achievement over and an illegible inscription. To the west are two memorials to the Holden family: one from 1821 with a carved book at the top and another from 1862 with a pointed aedicule. On the opposite wall are two slate and white marble memorials, both with draped urns at the top—one to Elizabeth Holden, who died in 1795, and the other to Mary Shuttleworth, who died in 1791. In the vestry beyond to the east is one memorial to Nathaniel Johnson of around 1830 and a slate plaque to the sons of John Rolleston, who died between 1741 and 1763.

The chancel contains a small brass plaque recording the refurbishing of the chancel in 1873.

Stained Glass

All the stained glass is 19th-century. The glass in all the chancel windows is mid-19th-century and non-figurative, except the east window, which dates to around 1873. The west window of the south aisle, the lancets in the tower, and two of the north aisle windows are also mid-19th-century and non-figurative, with patterns of very brightly coloured glass. The eastern window of the north aisle is dated 1848. The two south-facing south aisle windows both have figurative stained glass of around 1917, and the two western north aisle windows have similar late 19th-century glass.