Church Of All Saints

A parish church of limestone ashlar, coursed ironstone rubble, blue lias, and red brick with lead, pantile and slate roofs. The building dates from the 11th century onwards, with major phases in around 1190, the late 13th century, 14th century, 15th century, 17th century, and further work in 1749–52, restoration in 1811, the 19th century, and 1951.

The plan comprises a west tower, nave with north and south aisles, north and south porches, north transept, rectangular chancel, and north-east vestry.

The ashlar tower dates from 1752 and stands in three stages with a small plinth. The west side of the first stage contains a 20th-century rectangular door with a pair of plain pointed 18th-century lights above. The second stage has two single pointed lights and four bell openings of plain paired pointed lights. Above are moulded eaves and battlements.

The north aisle is built of coursed ironstone and blue lias rubble. In its south corner is an 18th-century buttress level with the tower's first stage. A blocked 18th-century doorway with a segmental head sits above a blocked late 12th-century lancet. A small, plain narrow angle buttress adjoins. A larger angle buttress on the north side has "R.G.1749" scratched on it. A fragmentary string course is visible. An early 14th-century pointed window of three cusped lights with reticulated tracery divided by a transom and a 19th-century hood mould illuminates the aisle. Moulded eaves and early 15th-century battlements crown the elevation.

The north porch is built of irregular blocks of ashlar, blue lias, and early 19th-century brick with dentillated eaves. It has a plain segmental headed archway, a coped gable, and a slate roof. The interior is flanked by stone benches. The north doorway dates from around 1190, with two flanking columnar responds with plain moulded capitals and a pointed arch with filleted rolls. East of the porch are two small circular windows, probably reset 11th-century fragments.

The late 13th-century north transept was raised in the early 15th century. A moulded string course runs around it but does not continue over the angle buttress of two stages. A large 17th-century north window of five lights with two transoms and intersecting tracery illuminates the transept; the lower transom has shallow castellation decoration. The window is flanked by nook shafts with shaft rings and moulded capitals with a hood mould above. A damaged 15th-century parapet with shields and quatrefoils crowns the wall. The east and west sides of the transept are battlemented. The east side has two three-light late 13th-century pointed windows with intersecting tracery. A clerestorey of three early 15th-century windows, each of two lights under three-centred heads, lights the clerestorey. Moulded eaves and battlements complete the elevation.

The late 12th-century chancel has a small ashlar plinth and a moulded string course on the north side. A small, low, 15th-century rectangular window and a late 12th-century doorway (now blocked to the east) with fragmentary stiff-leaf capitals and a moulded pointed arch are set into the north wall. Four tall 12th-century lancets occupy the east end; two to the east are cut off but intact where the 15th-century vestry was added. The vestry has a heavily moulded plinth and string course, a small two-stage buttress on the west side, and a small 12th-century quatrefoil inserted into its walls. The east side of the vestry has a 15th-century window of two ogee-headed lights with a continuous mullion under a three-centred head, moulded eaves, and a lead roof. A 15th-century moulded plinth and string course continue across the chancel's east front, flanked by pilaster buttresses. A large 17th-century rectangular window of five lights with a single transom decorated with shallow castellations occupies the centre; it is flanked by nook shafts with shaft rings and moulded capitals. Above sits a rendered brick gable of 1951.

The south side of the chancel has a 12th-century plinth and string course with two tall lancets. To the west is an 18th-century rectangular window of two ogee lights, each divided by a mullion with quatrefoils above and a hood mould with weathered head label stops. An 18th-century string course runs at a lower level than the 12th-century string course and is interrupted by the window.

The south aisle's east end was rebuilt in 1750 following the collapse of the south transept. It has a plinth, string course, and a rectangular window with five round-headed lights divided by a transom. Moulded eaves crown the wall. A large squat buttress below a masonry joint reveals the break between the 18th-century and 14th-century builds. The string course continues below a 14th-century pointed window of three cusped lights with mouchettes and a hood mould. The original pitch of the south porch roof remains visible, marked by moulded eaves above. The 15th-century porch has a moulded plinth, and its diagonal buttresses are cut off by the present, lower roof level. The doorway has plain polygonal jambs with a pointed moulded arch and an ogee-headed empty niche above. Benches flank the porch interior. A late 12th-century south door has columnar responds (the western one missing), plain moulded capitals, and a plain moulded pointed arch. A 15th-century window to the west of the porch has three cusped lights with mullions continued up into the tracery above, a four-centred hood mould, and weathered head label stops. A three-stage diagonal buttress adjoins. A 15th-century west window of three cusped lights with continuous mullions under a rectangular head lights the aisle. A clerestory of three 15th-century windows, each of two lights under a three-centred head, illuminates the upper wall.

Internally, a plain, pointed, blocked 18th-century tower arch has a plain 20th-century door inserted. 18th-century murals of Death and Saint Michael are painted above.

The nave arcades date from around 1190 and comprise two bays plus a crossing bay. The piers are of four clustered shafts with plain moulded capitals and bases. The western responds are semi-circular with plain waterleaf capitals and shaft rings. The north aisle's west wall contains a blocked 18th-century doorway. To the east, where the north aisle leads into the transept, the pier is paired with a late 13th-century octagonal pier supporting a pointed moulded arch.

The chancel arch dates from around 1190, is pointed, and has plain chamfers. The innermost responds are broken off, probably for the insertion of a screen no longer extant. A string course runs round under the sills of the chancel windows.

The chancel contains a 15th-century four-centred doorway to the vestry in the north wall, with a 15th-century door. A rectangular aumbry sits in the north wall. Sedilia in the south wall comprise three trefoiled stark and heavy arches. To the east are two round-headed arches over a piscina. Nine 15th-century bench ends were restored in 1951. A 15th-century screen of four panels is divided by mullions with rosettes, cusping, and shallow castellations on the vertical rail. A 19th-century pulpit and lectern stand in the nave. A 12th-century octagonal stone font with interlaced arches and beaded flat stylised leaves in the spandrels is preserved. A large 16th-century chest with sunken panels and several locks remains. Early 20th-century pews furnish the nave. A 12th-century foliated cross slab, formerly in the churchyard, now sits in the south transept bay.