Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

Parish church. The building comprises a late 11th-century nave, early 14th-century chancel and north aisle, 16th-century west tower, and 19th-century north vestry and organ chamber. The walls are constructed in coursed rubble to the nave with ashlar dressings, and sandstone ashlar elsewhere. The roofs are plain tiles and lead-covered with stone coped verges.

West Tower

The tower is three stages marked by strings with diagonal buttresses and a crenellated parapet bearing crocketed corner pinnacles. The four-centred west door has a moulded surround, panelled spandrels and hoodmould. Above this sits a four-centred three-light window with Perpendicular tracery and returned hoodmould. The third stage has rectangular loops with chamfered surrounds, while the pointed three-light belfry windows display Perpendicular tracery.

Nave

The south wall retains an 11th-century loop with a rounded head and is buttressed to the east by pilaster buttresses. Two early 14th-century south windows survive: one of two lights with cusped Y-tracery (possibly replacing a doorway, suggested by straight joints below the jambs), and another with a single reticulation in the head. Four 15th-century clerestory windows on the south side each have three cinquefoil-headed lights with sunken spandrels. The south porch, dating to the mid-19th century, is Tudor Gothic in style with a crenellated parapet and corner pinnacles; it features a four-centred entrance flanked by trefoil-headed panels.

North Aisle

The aisle has a high pitched roof and pointed windows with Y-tracery. The pointed north door has a wave-moulded surround and ogee hood, flanked by small buttresses.

Chancel

The chancel has pointed side windows with Y-tracery and a pointed east window with 19th-century Perpendicular tracery.

Interior

The early 14th-century arcade features pointed arches of two chamfered orders with octagonal columns and moulded capitals. A 16th-century tall and pointed tower arch and a 14th-century wide and pointed chancel arch, both of two chamfered orders, span the interior spaces. The nave roof is nearly flat with moulded tie beams, ridge piece and rafters, probably dating to the 15th century and restored in 1927. A common-rafter roof with arch-braced collars spans the north aisle, possibly 14th-century though it has been interfered with and now blocks the clerestory windows. A pointed arch between the north aisle and the vestry and organ chamber partly obstructs the east window of the north aisle, which originally comprised three-lancet lights beneath a larger pointed arch. Remains of a staircase between the north aisle and chancel led to the rood loft.

In the chancel are a piscina and a small recess, both early 14th-century with trefoiled heads. A 19th-century arch-braced collar roof spans the chancel.

Fittings and Monuments

An octagonal stone font inscribed "WH / SM / 1664" features a moulded basin and frieze of shields. An oak pulpit inscribed "EC / RM / 1656" is octagonal with a door and top panels carved with grapes and vine leaves, though much restored in the 19th century. A brass eagle lectern dates to 1903. A screen, probably early 16th-century, displays tracery of intertwined branches bearing leaves and human heads. A 19th-century Perpendicular-style marble reredos stands in the chancel.

The stained glass includes a chancel north window of 1887 by Morris & Company depicting St James and St Paul, and 18th-century glass in the vestry by Francis Eginton. Monuments include tablets to Samuel Newton (died 1751) and John Newton (died 1783), a near-identical pair with pedimented tops and urns, and a sarcophagus to Elizabeth Newton (died 1794).