Church Of All Saints

This is a parish church of significant historical complexity, with fabric spanning from the 10th century through to the 17th century, restored in 1894 with the nave roof restored again in 1902. The building is constructed of coursed rubble, dressed coursed rubble and ashlar, with slate roofs.

The church comprises a tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch and chancel. The tower is of early 13th-century date and rises in two stages with bands and a course of ballflower running beneath 14th-century battlements. The west face has a moulded pointed arched doorway with hood mould and label stops. Above this is an arched three-light late 14th-century window with panel tracery, cusping, moulded surround, hood mould and worn beast label stops, flanked by single corbels. Above that is an arched and cusped niche with a moulded arched surround with finial. The belfry contains four arched openings of around 1300, each with two cusped lights and hood mould. A single clock face sits to the south, with five small rectangular lights to the west and single similar lights to the north and east.

The north aisle's west wall contains a single arched two-light window with Y tracery. The north wall displays a chamfered arched doorway with wooden door and hood mould, above which is an oval plaque dated 1699 with illegible inscription. To the left is a single 16th-century window under a flat arch with two cusped lights, original lead and hood mould. Further left is a single 16th-century three-light window under flat arch with cusping, original lead and hood mould. This bay is of coursed rubble and not set on a plinth. The east wall has a single arched three-light re-cut window with intersecting tracery.

The chancel lacks the moulded plinth band and is largely of coursed rubble. Its north wall contains two blocked windows with flat arches and hood moulds, with a felted roof of a basement projecting outward. The east chancel has a single arched five-light window with 14th-century panel tracery and hood mould, replacing an earlier window. The south chancel has a central chamfered arched doorway with wooden door, flanked by single 16th-century windows each with three lights, tracery, cusping, flat arch and hood mould.

The south aisle's east wall contains a single 16th-century three-light arched window with original lead. Against the south wall lean three rectangular arched headstones of early 18th-century date with illegible inscriptions, along with a larger rectangular arched headstone to Elizabeth Holmes dated 1728. The south wall itself has two 17th-century three-light windows under flat arches with original lead and moulded surrounds. A single similar window sits to the left of the 14th-century porch, which is diagonally buttressed with a moulded pointed arched entrance supported on engaged colonnettes with moulded capitals. The hood mould has two large worn beast label stops and a carved angel finial, above which is a sundial. A double iron gate provides access. The porch's east and west walls each have single traceried openings with two cusped lights under flat arches. The inner early 13th-century double chamfered pointed arched doorway has imposts decorated with nailhead terminating on the left in a stylised flower, with a hood mould featuring two large 15th-century regal head label stops. A 17th-century panelled door hangs within. The south aisle's west wall contains a single three-light arched window with 14th-century panel tracery, original lead and moulded surround.

The tower has a rendered red brick stack to the north-east, and the building is buttressed and set on a plinth with moulded band running over it. The east gable is coped with a single ridge cross.

The interior is architecturally rich. The north aisle has a three-bay late 13th-century arcade with a single large square, part-chamfered pier of 10th-century date rising to the roof, with a single octagonal column with moulded capital to its right. To the east and west are similar large piers, all with corbels supporting double chamfered arches. The south aisle contains a four-bay 15th-century arcade with octagonal columns with moulded capitals supporting double chamfered arches, with moulded corbels to the east and west.

The tower arch features double chamfering with the inner chamfer supported on castellated corbels. A 20th-century screen with blind traceried panels sits beneath it. The late 13th-century chancel arch is similarly double chamfered with the inner chamfer supported on corbels, also with a 20th-century screen beneath. The nave has an 18th-century king post roof.

The interior contains several liturgical fittings. The south wall of the north aisle has a small piscina, with a further piscina in the south aisle wall. To the south of the chancel arch is a squint. Beside the south doorway is an aumbry. A 15th-century alms box and 17th-century oak chest with iron fittings are present. Some pews are 17th-century, and a 16th-century communion table stands in the north aisle.

The chancel contains numerous monuments. Those by the sculptor Crake include monuments to Gervase Anthony Eyre (1811), with the crown decorated with battle trappings; to Anthony Hardolph Eyre and his wife Francisca Alicia (1836), in the shape of a casket surmounted by a coloured shield; and to Anthony Eyre and his wife Judith Letitia (1800), also surmounted by a coloured shield. A fine monument to Gervas Eyre and his wife Catherine by WM Holland (1703) features the tablet flanked by single pilasters with acanthus-decorated capitals supporting a cornice surmounted by a central coloured shield flanked by single urns, with cherubs at the base of the inscription and a further cherub's head on the apron. Additional monuments honour Sir George Eyre (1839), Carolus Eyre (1796), Anne Marie Eyre (1826), Louisa Henrietta Eyre (1816), Johannis and Charlottae Eyre (1831), Johannis Hardolpi Eyre and Antonius Gervasius Eyre (1821), and Charles Willoughby Eyre and Anthony Gervase Eyre (1834), the latter by Lockwood and surmounted by a lily. The south aisle contains a monument to Elizabeth Howlet (1747). A hatchment hangs on the north nave wall.

Two boards document the church's history: one dated February 7, 1743, details "A particular of ye augument of ye church in ye year 1735", and another dated 1703 outlines the gift of Gervas Coale of Rampton.