Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church dating from the 13th-15th centuries, with significant rebuilding in the 18th and 19th centuries. It comprises a chancel, nave, a south aisle, a south porch, and a west tower. The church is constructed of ironstone ashlar, limestone, and grey sandstone, with lead and sheet metal roofs.

The four-bay chancel features a large four-light east window with cusped intersecting tracery and a hood mould. It has off-set angle buttresses and a battlemented parapet to the east gable, bearing raised lettering: “GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO / ROBERTUS COMES FERRIUS / HOC SACRARIUM REEDIFICAVIT / ANNO DOMINI 1787.” The nave has a three-window clerestory of two-light windows with cinquefoil-headed lights. A two-light window, likely from 1787, is located to the north-east, with cusped Y tracery, and a blocked, chamfered north door with imposts. The south aisle overlaps the tower and contains a three-light window to the south-east with intersecting tracery and a hood mould, and a two-light window to the south-west with Y tracery, a hood mould, label stops, and a faucet. A C18 six-panel door is set within a shallow C18 porch featuring a shallow-chamfered and hollow-chamfered doorway with imposts and a hood mould, as well as angle buttresses and a battlemented parapet. The two-stage west tower has a two-light window to the west with a quatrefoil to head and a hood mould. The upper bell-chamber stage is constructed of red brick with limestone quoins and features two-light bell-chamber openings with blank quatrefoils to the head and a pointed trefoil-headed light. Chamfered stone eaves and a pyramidal lead roof complete the tower.

Inside, a double-chamfered chancel arch transitions to an arcade with octagonal piers and polygonal responds. The capitals are moulded, with foliage and heads carved on the eastern pier and E respond. A screen within the tower arch, likely from the late 18th century, is panelled with Gothic tracery above. The font is square with panelled sides, and its stem has corner shafts with nailhead ornament. A carved stone bust, depicting a bare-headed figure in vestments holding a crozier under a semi-circular hood mould, is set inside the base of the tower; it is likely Norman but could be Anglo-Saxon. Early 19th-century stained glass shields display the arms of the Shirley family and related families.