Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church with elements dating back to the 12th century, significantly altered in the 13th, 15th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed from granite rubble stone with stone dressings and a roof of Swithland slate. The church includes a west tower, a nave, a north aisle and chancel chapel, a chancel, and a south porch.

The west tower is of three stages, with the lower part dating to the 13th century and the upper part to the 15th. It features clasping buttresses, four bell openings and battlements. There are blocked lancet windows on the north and south sides. The nave, of the 13th century, has a three-bay, double-chamfered arcade that leads to the north aisle, supported by octagonal piers. There is a similar two-bay arcade to the north chancel. The nave roof is of 3¼ bays, with cambered tie beams, wall pieces, and curved braces rising from corbels. It also has king and angle struts with collars, double purlins with waved wind braces. The north aisle, of the 13th century, has a northwest lancet and a north door. A northeast window is of the 19th century and is Recticulated in style, along with two other 19th-century Geometric windows on the north side. The roof of the north aisle is likely from the 15th or 16th century, incorporating both a lean-to section and a low-pitched, tie-beam structure. A chancel chapel screen is partly from the 14th century and possibly originates from the chancel. The chancel features a wooden chancel arch and two south windows with restored Y tracery. One of these windows contains stained glass from 1935 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, London. A restored Perpendicular window is located to the east, including fragments of 15th-century stained glass. The chancel roof is of 3¼ bays and a queen post tie beam truss, partly boarded in the 19th century. On the exterior of the chancel is a blocked window with Geometric tracery, and a small window above the east window. The nave has a timbered gable to the east. Within the nave’s south wall are three Perpendicular windows, with stained glass dating to 1930 in one. A south door has a 12th-century arch. The south porch has a two-bay double purlin roof, with curved wind braces, curved collars, and no tie beams.

The interior of the church contains a 13th-century stone coffin lid, a 15th-century font, 17th and 18th-century slate floor stones, a slate headstone dated 1641, and the Latimer monument of 1843, designed by Broadbent of Leicester.