Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

Parish church dating from the 12th century with 14th-century additions. The chancel was rebuilt in 1672, and the entire church except the tower was rebuilt in 1869 by C. J. Neale, when the transepts, vestry and organ chamber were added. The building is constructed in dressed coursed rubble and ashlar with slate roofs and a single stack at the north-east end of the nave.

The church comprises a tower, nave, south porch, north and south transepts, north vestry, organ chamber and chancel. The diagonally buttressed 12th-century tower has three stages and stands on a plinth with a 14th-century embattled parapet crowned by eight crocketted pinnacles. Both the north and south sides display two gargoyles. A string course extends over the west window, with a further string course beneath the bell chamber openings. The 19th-century arched three-light west window features tracery, cusping and a hoodmould, with a memorial to the Short family dating around 1805 to its right and a small stair light above. The south wall contains three stair lights. The bell chamber has four arched openings, each of two lights with tracery and cusping. A stylised cross carved in relief appears on the north-west wall of the nave.

The north nave wall stands on a plinth with an embattled parapet and features three arched two-light windows, each with panel tracery, cusping, hoodmould and head label stops. The diagonally buttressed north transept, also on a plinth with embattled parapet, has an arched five-light window with panel tracery, cusping, hoodmould and head label stops in its north wall. The organ chamber and vestry, with a single angle buttress, stands on a plinth with embattled parapet and has two windows in the east wall, both with tracery and cusping under flat heads with hoodmould and head label stops. The east end of the nave is embattled.

The chancel stands on a plinth with ashlar quoins at the east end and a single ridge cross. A raised decorative eaves band dated 1672 appears in the apex, with single gargoyles to the north-east and south-east. The east end has three arched windows, the central one slightly larger, each flanked by a single slim engaged column with decorated capital supporting an impost and moulded arch. A hoodmould extends over all three, with the centre window having two head label stops. The restored south doorway features four engaged columns with decorated capitals supporting imposts and a moulded arch, with an inner order of roll moulding.

The diagonally buttressed south transept stands on a plinth with embattled parapet. Its east wall has a two-light arched window with tracery, cusping, hoodmould and head label stops, while the south wall displays a five-light arched window with panel tracery, cusping, hoodmould and head label stops. The embattled south nave, on a plinth, has a three-light arched window with tracery, cusping, hoodmould and head label stops. Beneath this lies a 14th-century tomb recess with worn cusped arch and hoodmould. The south porch stands on a plinth with a damaged ridge cross and features a moulded arched doorway with hoodmould and head label stops, above which is an arched and cusped niche with hoodmould. The south nave wall has a further two-light arched window with tracery, cusping, hoodmould and head label stops. The heavily restored 12th-century inner doorway has two pairs of colonnettes, the inner pair engaged, supporting imposts and a moulded arch.

The interior features a double chamfered tower arch. The transept and nave arches are double chamfered and supported on engaged columns. The north transept and north vestry arch is double chamfered. The heavily restored 12th-century chancel arch has an inner order of square piers and imposts supporting a square-edged arch, with single engaged fluted columns with scalloped capitals and imposts supporting an arch of alternate roll moulding and square section. An outer order of single engaged columns with cushion capitals supports a moulded arch. A small rectangular opening appears in the left square pier. The south chancel doorway has an inner arch of chevron supported on imposts and an outer moulded arch; a similar arrangement exists over the north vestry doorway with an additional inner moulded arch.

The south wall contains a piscina and double sedilia. The east window corresponds to the exterior but has a hoodmould decorated with trefoil. A 17th-century altar table with later top is present, as are 17th-century altar rails. The font dates from the 18th century, while the pulpit, lectern and reading desk are late 19th century. The roof is supported on corbels. Monuments on the south chancel wall include one topped with a pediment with central roundel to Stephen Ferrand (1788) and another topped with a pediment to Henry Brown Woodcock and his wife Sarah (1833). The north chancel wall bears a monument with shield on the apron to Joshua and Ann Waddington (1780) by J. Wallis of Newark.