Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, with a restoration in 1867. It is constructed of coursed squared stone and rubble stone, with granite rubble in the south aisle, stone dressings, and leaded roofs. Stone coped gables and parapets are present on the chancel. The church comprises a west tower, a nave, north and south aisles, a chancel, and a south porch. The two-stage west tower incorporates south angle buttresses, a west buttress, and a north diagonal buttress, all featuring set-offs. A small south doorway is present, with a blocked single-light window above it. Four simple Perpendicular two-light bell openings are set within battlements topped with crocketted pinnacles. A blocked nave arch remains, with traces of its hood mould. A small 19th-century west door provides access from the nave to the tower. Four-bay arcades feature two wide arches and a narrower arch at either end, supported by double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers. The Perpendicular clerestory includes three two-light north windows and four similar south windows. The nave boasts a 4-bay, low-pitch tie-beam truss roof with carved bosses and blind arcading within the gable ends. The north aisle has restored windows; the northwest window has Curvilinear tracery and mid-19th-century stained glass, the two north windows are fitted with Intersected tracery and stained glass of 1899 by A. Ballantine and Gardiner (Edinburgh), and the northeast window exhibits Reticulated tracery. A richly moulded doorway is located on the north side. The north aisle also features a restored 4-bay, low-pitch tie-beam truss roof with carved bosses. The chancel arch is double-chamfered, with the inner section supported on carved head corbels. The chancel has two blocked windows on both the north and south sides, and an east window with Curvilinear tracery and stained glass dating from 1893. It is topped with a 3-bay, low-pitch tie-beam truss roof, featuring blind arcading within the gables. The south aisle has three Perpendicular windows, two with stained glass from the mid-1920s (displaying a peacock monogram) and another from 1979 by John Hayward. The southwest window features Curvilinear tracery and mid-19th-century stained glass. A small niche and a 13th-century doorway are also present on the south side. The south aisle’s roof is a 4-bay, low-pitch tie-beam truss, complete with carved bosses, heads, and blind arcading in the gable ends. A 19th-century gable porch, with an open-work upper section, also stands on the south side. A 13th-century round font is located within the church. A series of 18th-century finely carved slate tomb slabs are found in the chancel, accompanied by 18th and early 19th-century wall monuments, including those dedicated to Sir Edward Wigley (died 1710) and his wife (featuring two fine busts), James Wigley (died 1765), and Andrew Noel (died 1736). A 14th-century recumbent effigy of a priest – said to have been a Prior of Coventry – is set sideways in the north chancel wall and is heavily defaced.