Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

This is a parish church of 13th to 16th-century date, with restorations carried out in 1768 and during the 19th century. The building is constructed in coursed rubble and coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings, dressed stone quoins, and rubble plinths. The roofs are of lead and slab. The church comprises a west tower and spire, nave, north and south aisles, chancel, and south porch, all finished with crenellated parapets.

The west tower is of two stages, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries. It features a string course and decorated eaves band with four gargoyles and a restored crenellated parapet. The octagonal setback rubble spire has a finial and weathercock. A corner buttress remains to the south east, with a single setoff and engagement with the south aisle. The first stage contains a clock to the south, a 19th-century single lancet to the west, and a plain rectangular light above. The second stage has four 14th-century double lancet bell openings with cusped ogee heads, quatrefoils, and hood moulds with mask stops.

The nave has a 16th-century clerestory of four bays. The north side has four crocketed pinnacles, restored, while the south side has three pinnacles. The east gable carries a cross. Each side features four 16th-century triple lancets, two with round heads and two with pointed heads, in plain square reveals. The north aisle extends over four bays with remains of a sill band and two irregular plain buttresses with two setoffs. A 20th-century external stack is positioned at the west end. The west end has a blocked chamfered pointed arched doorway flanked to the east by two and to the west by a single restored late 14th-century triple lancet with cusped ogee heads, chamfered mullions and reveals. A 15th-century triple lancet with ogee heads, panel tracery, splayed mullions and reveal, and a hood mould with mask stops appears at the west end. The east end contains a late 14th-century triple lancet with ogee heads and restored Decorated tracery with fleurons, chamfered mullions and reveal.

The south aisle extends over four bays with two coped gables and three irregular buttresses with two setoffs. The east end has a late 14th-century triple lancet with ogee heads, Decorated tracery with mouchettes, chamfered and splayed reveal and mullions. The west end holds a similar lancet restored in the 20th century. The south side contains two 15th-century partly restored double lancets with ogee heads, Decorated tracery, splayed mullions and splayed and rebated reveals to the east, and a late 14th-century restored triple lancet of similar design with a square headed reveal to the west.

The chancel extends over two bays with a moulded eaves band and crenellated east gable with cross. The east end has two 19th-century diagonal buttresses with two setoffs. The north side has a restored 15th-century quadruple lancet with ogee heads, Decorated tracery with mouchettes, chamfered square headed reveal, and hood mould with mask stops to the west. The east end contains a restored 14th-century quadruple lancet with cusped heads, Decorated tracery, splayed mullions and reveal, and hood mould with mask stops. The south side has a central 15th-century priest's door with chamfered reveal, a four centred arched head, and a hood mould with mask stops, with a traceried panelled door. Single 15th-century triple lancets with ogee heads, Decorated tracery, hood moulds and mask stops flank this doorway.

The south porch dates from the 14th century and has been restored. It features a deep moulded and chamfered plinth, chamfered eaves, two diagonal buttresses to the south with a single setoff, and a slab roof with roll moulded ridge. Coped gables with kneelers and a cross complete the exterior. The south doorway has a restored cove and roll moulded reveal with a single column with moulded capitals and bases and a coved hood mould. Each side contains a single chamfered lancet. The interior has moulded eaves and ridge. The south inner doorway is of 14th-century date with cove and roll mouldings with fillets.

Interior details include nave arcades of late 13th-century date comprising four bays with octagonal piers, moulded bases and capitals (one with dogtooth), and four octagonal imposts with mask corbels. The arches are double chamfered and rebated. The roof is a restored 15th-century principal rafter design with moulded principal timbers; the ridge is inscribed 'J W 1768 R W'. 19th-century corbels carry 19th-century moulded tie beams with arch braces and struts to the ridge. The tower arch is of 14th-century date, double chamfered and rebated, dying into a chamfered surround. A 20th-century timber screen with a central door and leaded light above separates the tower chamber, which has a cleft timber ladder to the bell stage. The bells date from 1550, 1646, and 1880.

The north aisle contains a window with a stained glass panel of 1978 and an east window with a stained glass panel of 1973. A 19th-century lean-to roof on corbels features moulded arch braces and principal timbers. The south aisle retains remains of a stoup with an ogee head on the south side. Its roof follows the north aisle pattern with four re-used corbels.

The chancel arch is of 14th-century date, double chamfered and rebated, with moulded octagonal imposts and beast corbels. The north side has a restored double cusped head recess. The east end contains a window with patterned 19th-century stained glass. The chancel roof is a 19th-century principal rafter design with chamfered timbers and foliate bosses.

Fittings include a plain 12th-century tub font with a chamfered round base, a restored 18th-century fielded panelled timber pulpit with stencilled decoration, and a 20th-century timber eagle lectern with an octagonal traceried panelled stem. 19th-century traceried and billeted benches incorporate 21 15th-century traceried panelled bench ends. Two 19th-century benches with fleur de lys finials incorporate 17th- and 18th-century plain, traceried and carved panels. A carved and panelled 19th-century clergy desk, two 17th-century arm chairs with chip carved panelled backs, and an 18th-century iron bound parish chest are present. A single 19th-century stacked tube radiator is installed.

Memorials include an inscribed marble tablet of 1729 by Paul Jenkinson to Prudence Fiennes, a marble and slate tablet of 1896, a brass and slate war memorial tablet of 1929 with a roll of honour, and two small 20th-century memorials.