Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating to the early 14th century, with subsequent restoration including a rebuild of the chancel in 1819. It is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble with white ashlar dressings, with the chancel built of brick. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a clerestory and two aisles, and a chancel.

The west tower has three stages with slender angle buttresses. It contains a west door and a two-light window above the door. The bell chamber features a three-light double-tiered traceried window, a clock on the west face, and a quatrefoil frieze below an embattled parapet incorporating gargoyles. Remnants of a spire remain. The south aisle is of two distinct builds, with coursed rubble to the west and ashlar work on a granite plinth to the east. A worn, roll-moulded arch on slender shafts forms the south doorway, leading to a fine timber door with slender strapwork Y-tracery. A 19th-century granite and openwork timber porch stands adjacent. The south aisle also has one wide and simply traceried window and a round arched, foiled light, topped with an ashlar parapet. The clerestory has paired foiled lights and an ashlar parapet with gargoyles. The brick chancel of 1819 features a red sandstone east window with heavy tracery and a date stone in the apex of the east gable. The north aisle is buttressed and contains two wide, three-light decorated windows and a small doorway with a chamfered arch and hoodmould. A worn carved head sits above the doorway, while the north door is of a similar quality and style to the south door.

Internally, the nave is of three bays, but appears to have a fourth western bay or narthex due to the arcaded tower on three sides. Double-chamfered arches with clustered shafts support the tower, with an ogee-arched doorway leading to the tower staircase. The nave arcade has octagonal columns and double-chamfered arches, with Victorian corbels depicting a serpent, a skull, the crucifixion, and various saints. The nave roof is likely from the 15th century, featuring cambered trusses with large central foliate bosses. The chancel arch is steeply pointed and double-chamfered on half-octagonal piers, appearing earlier than the arcade, possibly dating to the late 13th century. A door leads to a former rood loft on the north side. The chancel is raised three steps, accessed via a largely medieval (14th century) screen, capped by a Victorian cross, with a central ogee arch and cusped tracery panels. Fragments of a similar screen are incorporated within the south aisle screen.

A heavy, high Victorian stone and marble pulpit, dating from around 1860, is present. The royal arms are displayed above the tower arch. A partly obliterated incised slab lies beneath the tower, and a diminutive font rests on four round shafts with nail head decoration. The font basin is a curved square with a floral motif in each panel, possibly 13th century. Various late 18th-century box pews and a Gothic commandments board are located in the south aisle.