Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to the 13th century, with subsequent alterations and rebuilding in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. The nave was largely rebuilt in 1843, and the chancel in 1873. The building is constructed of chalk rubble with ironstone and limestone dressings, covered by slate and lead roofs.

The church comprises a western tower, a nave with a clerestory, aisles, and a south porch. The three-stage tower is faced in ironstone and features a plinth, two string courses, an embattled parapet, and stepped angle buttresses. A 14th-century two-light window is situated on the south side of the tower’s middle stage, while paired 19th-century windows illuminate the belfry stage in four directions. The west door is 19th century, featuring a four-centred arched head, and is set above a 16th-century three-light window with a double concave chamfered surround and moulded hood. The north aisle’s west wall incorporates a reset 13th-century paired lancet with plate tracery and a roundel. Five paired 19th-century windows with geometric tracery and moulded hoods are also present in the north wall. The clerestory shows four paired lights with a deep, hollow chamfered surround similarly treated with moulded hoods, designed in a 16th-century style. A shouldered door serves the vestry, and a cast iron 19th-century pump stands nearby. The east wall features a 19th-century two-light window. The chancel’s 19th-century east window is of three lights with geometric tracery and a continuously moulded surround. The south wall has two paired lights with geometric roundels above, and the south aisle’s east wall contains a 15th-century two-light window with trefoil heads to the lights, a chamfered rectangular surround, and a moulded hood. Three restored 16th-century windows with cusped heads and hollow-moulded four-centred arched surrounds are also in the south wall. The clerestory mirrors the north side. The gabled south porch has a lead roof and continuously moulded 16th-century outer and inner doorways, both with hollow mouldings.

Inside, the four-bay south arcade is of the early 13th century, marked by circular piers, annular capitals, double chamfered arches with moulded hoods (recut in the 19th century). The north arcade is similar but of 19th-century construction with foliate capitals. The single chamfered arch to the vestry is 19th century, with moulded octagonal responds. The chancel arch is moulded and chamfered, with marble wall shaft responds. The nave's roof is primarily 19th century, but incorporates 15th-century carved wooden figures affixed to the hammer beams. A moulded and chamfered archway provides access to the vestry, leading to a gabled 19th-century aumbry in the chancel north wall. An elaborate, sculptured stone reredos, flanked by blank arcades and painted and gilded, occupies the east end. The 19th-century organ is decorated with pierced and gilded traceried panels. The chancel roof is divided into square panels with moulded ribs and bosses, featuring decorative roundels containing paintings of saints. Angle shafts are visible behind the rear arch of the chancel east window. 19th-century stained glass is present in the chancel and aisles. The fittings are predominantly 19th century, with the exception of the 15th-century octagonal font, which is decorated with shields and quatrefoils.