Parish Church Of St Mary And All Saints

The Parish Church of St Mary and All Saints is a substantial building dating back to the 13th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th and 15th centuries, and a restoration in 1886-7, including the addition of a south aisle. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has plain tiled end leaded roofs with raised stone coped gables.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave, north and south aisles, and a chancel. The three-stage west tower of the 15th century has a chamfered plinth and string courses, stepped set back buttresses, and an embattled parapet with angle pinnacles. The belfry stage has paired louvered openings with pointed heads to the lights, trefoils and hollow chamfered surrounds. The west wall features a tall three-light window and a four-centred arched panel with paired blank openings, repeated on the side walls. The south aisle’s west wall has a 19th-century single-light window with cusped tracery. The north aisle has a pair of 14th-century reticulated three-light windows in rectangular surrounds and a blocked doorway with a plain ashlar surround. The 19th-century chancel has a pair of lancets to the north and a three-light east window with geometric tracery. A blocked priest’s door with a chamfered surround and a single lancet are found on the south side. The south aisle has stepped buttresses with crockets and human head stops, a 19th-century single light east window with cusped tracery, and three two-light windows with 14th-century shafted reveals, now containing cusped 19th-century tracery and cambered arched heads. The south door retains 14th-century reveals with paired shafts and fleurons, although the head and hood are 19th-century replacements.

Inside, the three-bay 13th-century north nave arcade has octagonal piers, moulded capitals, and double chamfered arches. The 14th-century south arcade has hollow chamfered quatrefoil piers and floriate capitals to the labels, with continuously moulded arches. The 13th-century tower arch has double chamfered reveals, facetted capitals, and a pointed double chamfered arch. A tall 19th-century chancel arch is continuously moulded with floriate capitals. A rood loft doorway, with a chamfered rectangular surround and a four-centred arched doorway at a higher level, is found on the north side, along with a 13th-century carving of Christ in Majesty, now missing its head. The chancel includes a 14th-century piscina in the south wall, with a beast head supporter and a 19th-century arched top, and a 14th-century statue bracket with a crocketed and pinnacled canopy in the east wall.

Notable fittings include an early 18th-century raised and fielded panelled pulpit with a moulded cornice and intarsia stars. The circular ashlar font has blank trefoil panels to the sides and octagonal legs. A rectangular ashlar wall plaque to Anthony Williams, who died in 1681, is located on the north wall of the chancel; it has a moulded surround, a ramped top supporting a shield of arms and an obelisk, and beneath it, a reset 15th-century corbel now supporting a 19th-century book stand.