Church Of All Saints

A parish church of 13th and 15th century date, substantially restored in the 1840s and 1850s by Stephen Fry, with further work in the late 19th century. The south aisle was demolished in 1778. The building is constructed of granite rubble with stone dressings and slate roofs.

The plan comprises a west tower, nave, north aisle with an organ chamber in its east bay, north vestry, and chancel. The west tower is of three stages with a chamfered plinth and strings. It features battlements and slits to the south-east stairs. The bell chamber is lit by 19th-century two-light traceried openings with slits below. The west side displays a 19th-century three-light traceried window and a doorway in a 19th-century four-centred arch. The south side has a stair door with a Caernarvon arch.

The remaining windows throughout are decorated in style with tracery, hood moulds and carved stops. The south side of the nave has an ashlar plinth, moulded sill string, and stone eaves corbels. It contains three bays of three-light windows with off-set buttresses. The north aisle has three-light windows to the north, another to the west, and a traceried triangular window to the east. A blocked north door with moulded arch, hood mould and carved head stops survives. The east bay of the north aisle is entirely 19th-century in date. The chancel features a stone string, cornice and frieze, with three bays of three-light windows to the south. On the south side is a small moulded doorway with dogtooth ornament and shafted jambs, along with a large five-light east window with shaft jambs.

The interior retains plaster only in the chancel. The tower arch is chamfered and rests on moulded piers with moulded capitals, possibly re-used medieval work. Stairs are corbelled out inside the tower. The north arcade of the nave dates to the 13th century and comprises three bays of moulded and chamfered arches on circular piers with crocketted leaf capitals. The west bay differs slightly, featuring a double hollow chamfered arch with carved head corbels and a label with one carved head stop.

The north aisle contains a fine tomb recess with a moulded ogee arch and finial. Two 19th-century moulded arches on shafted piers lead to the chancel. The 19th-century chancel arch is moulded and rests on half-shafts with foliage scroll capitals. The north and south walls of the chancel feature cusped arched recesses at their east ends, both moulded, with the south example being ogee-shaped. A pair of cusped ogee recesses with crockets has been re-sited in the vestry.

The roofs are 19th-century; that of the chancel has trusses on short wall posts with wooden columns. 19th and early 20th-century glass and fittings are present throughout, including a carved stone and mosaic reredos dated 1882. Stephen Fry's 1840s-1850s work included the rebuilding and extension of the east end of the north aisle, the addition of a vestry, and the renewal of all tracery. The chancel arch was renewed in 1861, and the tower was restored in 1897.

The church contains several important monuments. In the north aisle is a 14th-century effigy of Ralph de Turvile in a tomb recess, alongside tomb slabs of Hugh Turvile (1347) and Agnes Turvile (1349), both carved with effigies and inscriptions. The figure of Agnes is notably half concealed by the surface of the slab. A very fine early 15th-century tomb chest features ogee side niches containing shield-bearing angels and effigies of a knight and lady, said to represent John and Katherine Turvile (1509). A wall memorial to Edward and Jane Turvyle of New Halle Parke (1619) displays a pair of oval portrait reliefs within a surround of Ionic pilasters, a broken pediment, and a coat of arms. Another wall memorial commemorates Elizabeth Turvyle (1653) and features a half-portrait of striking character, depicted melancholy with her head resting on her hand and elbow on a skull, set within a cartouche with a scrolled pediment.