Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a small parish church located in Cadeby, dating from the late 13th century, with some work from the 15th century and later restoration. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a plain tiled roof. It has a small west tower above the nave roof, a short south aisle, and a chancel. The tower is timber framed and tile hung, with wood traceried bell chamber lights and a pyramidal roof. A Victorian Decorated-style window is present in the west wall of the tower, and there is a south door located in a Victorian gabled porch. The nave and aisle have angle buttresses, with the aisle featuring Perpendicular windows that have drop-ended hoodmoulds with corbel heads. The tracery of these windows consists of two lights with trefoiled ogee work. The east window of the aisle has reticulated Decorated tracery with three lights. The chancel is rendered over limestone rubble on the south wall and cobble to the east, featuring 15th-century windows that have been renewed in the east and north. The north windows are also from the 15th century, with two of them renewed.

Inside, the tower is situated within the western bay of the nave and is an almost self-supporting timber structure. It has thick squared corner posts with braces connecting to tie beams and struts that tie into the outer stone walls, resembling construction techniques more common in Leicestershire than in other regions. The church has been restored in the "scrape" tradition throughout. The nave arcade consists of two bays from the 13th century, featuring filletted cylindrical shafts and flat octagonal abaci adorned with simple foliate emblems in relief, along with roll-moulded chamfered arches. The nave roof may be medieval, constructed with common rafters and lavishly timbered with sweeping curved braces. The principal rafter or truss marks the division with the chancel, which has a Queenpost construction with raking struts springing from corbels. A similar roof truss in the chancel indicates a different construction period. The south-west chancel window is set within a chamfered embrasure with a trefoiled arched head, and there are foiled piscines present. The interior features heavily varnished pitchpine Victorian fittings throughout.