Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church with a history spanning the 13th to 19th centuries, significantly altered in 1888. It is constructed of greenstone ashlar, squared greenstone, sandstone and chalk, coursed rubble, and red brick, with lead roofs. The building comprises a western tower, a clerestoried nave, a south aisle with a porch, and a chancel.

The tower is of three stages and dates to the 16th century, built of greenstone ashlar with a moulded plinth, two chamfered string courses, a battlemented parapet, stepped corner buttresses (with some brick patching), and crocketed pinnacles. It features openings with panel tracery and concave moulded surrounds: two-light openings to the belfry stage, a three-light window to the west, and a two-light window in the middle stage. A pointed doorway with a moulded hood and a reset human head keystone is present on the north side of the nave, alongside a 3-light 16th-century panel traceried window and a tall 13th-century lancet. The clerestory features six paired 16th-century lights with cinquefoils to the heads. The chancel contains two 14th-century two-light windows, one with flowing tracery and one with reticulated tracery, and a 14th-century two-light window with 19th-century tracery in the east wall. The south wall is of mixed stonework, including a re-used 14th-century two-light window and a single 19th-century light. A rainwater head is dated 1888. The south aisle is home to a pair of 19th-century two-light windows to the east and west, and an early 14th-century three-light window with ogee heads to the lights and a rectangular head and hood.

The early 17th-century gabled red brick porch, in English bond, features a plinth, chamfered and pointed outer arch, a niche, and a 19th-century roof. The inner doorway is single chamfered and pointed, with a hood mould.

Inside, a three-bay south arcade from the early 16th century has quirked and chamfered octagonal piers with reeded capitals, hollow chamfered arches with stop chamfers. A 16th-century tower arch has octagonal reveals and capitals, a bell moulded base, and a tall double chamfered arch. A matching chancel arch is set within an earlier, larger opening. The clerestory has hollow chamfered rear arches. The aisle roof is of the 16th century, with moulded principals, chamfered commons and bold roll moulding at the junctions. A pointed piscina and two statue brackets, one with faces and a rosette, are also present. The 1888 chancel incorporates the head and bowl of a 13th-century piscina. The church houses a fine mosaic reredos of the Annunciation in Pre-Raphaelite style, dated 1915, a handsome 1830 organ by Parsons of London within a veneered walnut case, a painted board of the Royal Arms of George III, and a 15th-century octagonal font with cusped and shielded panels to the bowl and four cusped panels to the stem.