Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a partly 13th-century church with substantial Perpendicular detailing, restored in 1859. It comprises a west tower, a nave with two aisles and a clerestory, and a chancel. The church is constructed of finely coursed ironstone with limestone dressings, featuring continuous plinth details.

The west tower is largely Perpendicular in style, built with banded ironstone and limestone ashlar, and is buttressed with an embattled parapet including gargoyles. It has three stages, with paired foiled lights to the bell chamber. A blocked pointed archway on the north side suggests that part of this wall may be older than the rest of the tower. The buttressed south aisle is of similar banded stonework, also Perpendicular, with a plinth and parapet. A Victorian porch and doorway feature a hollow chamfered arch with a hood mould, above which a small window is positioned; a string course from an earlier porch is visible above the porch. Windows are Perpendicular, mostly of three principal lights with hood moulds. The clerestory is also Perpendicular, with paired foiled lights and heavy hood moulds. The chancel is of finely coursed ironstone with two two-light Perpendicular windows on the north and south sides, a priest’s door on the south with a chamfered arch and hood mould, and a blocked doorway on the north. A five-light east window is also present, topped by an embattled parapet with gargoyles above a fine corbel table or frieze featuring masks, animals, and other decorative elements. A Perpendicular window is located on the north, alongside a blocked doorway with octagonal shafts and simply moulded capitals.

Inside, the west tower arch is late 13th century, double chamfered with round responds and roll moulded capitals. The nave has three bays. The south arcade features an earlier 13th-century western respond and pier, with octagonal piers and capitals displaying stiff leaf foliage masks. The other bays are slightly later and plainer, but all have double chamfered arches with hood moulds. The roof dates from the 1859 restoration, featuring tie beams with bosses and tracery supported by stone corbels. In the aisles, remnants of earlier roofs are visible in the corbels and string courses. The octagonal responds to the early 14th-century double chamfered chancel arch are flanked by an entry to a former rood loft to the north. The chancel includes a sedilia to the south and a piscina with a fluted basin. Stained glass in the chancel south and east windows dates from 1881 and 1897, by Ward Hughes. A font, possibly 13th century, is roughly shaped and octagonal, standing on a rounded base. A wall memorial in the south aisle, commemorating members of the Wollaston family between 1689 and 1710, displays a scrolled shield topped with arms and emblems, resting on wings and a skull.