Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church situated on the site of a former Benedictine Priory. Construction occurred in the 12th, 13th, and 15th centuries, and it is built of red and white sandstone ashlar with brown handmade tiles covering the roof over the chancel, incorporating verge parapets. The nave, slightly off-axis and without aisles, is accompanied by a central tower and chancel. The nave's three bays date to the 13th century, with restored two-light pointed windows on the south side and square-headed two-light windows on the north side from the 15th century. A late 19th-century arched west door is positioned above a pointed four-light window; visible on the south side is an arch to a blocked door, and an arch to a possible chapel. The tower, mainly from the 15th century, has four stages with set-back buttresses of three tiers flanking blocked transept arches. A string course with gargoyles is present at the angles below and over the top stage, and a frieze of blind quatrefoil tracery sits under a crenellated parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Late 19th-century two-light mullioned windows are located on the lower stages, a moulded quatrefoil opening sits below a three-light pointed, louvred bell chamber window with panel tracery and labels. The chancel, from the 12th century, features pilaster buttresses of two tiers at the angles, a restored 12th-century window to the south and a blocked 12th-century door to the north. A simple 13th-century Y tracery window is present on the south side, and a five-light pointed window is positioned at the east end.

Inside, a restored 12th-century round arch on simple imposts leads to the east of the nave, accompanied by a similarly restored pointed arch to the chancel. The nave features an early 19th-century roof composed of braced, shouldered king-post trusses with tension straps to the ties; the chancel has a late 19th-century trussed-rafter roof. Remnants of a medieval tiled floor are alongside the sedilia. A 13th-century trefoil-headed piscina and arcaded pointed arched sedilia are set on a lower original floor level. A 19th-century Dutch octagonal font with carved bas-relief panels, a hexagonal pulpit with carved bas-relief panels, and a Jacobean communion rail are also present. A damaged timber chancel screen, and late 19th-century stained glass on the south side complete the interior. Monuments include two early 19th-century marble and slate plaques depicting sarcophagi on the north wall of the chancel, an incised floor tomb slab from 1500 on the chancel floor, a 19th-century figure of the Virgin on a corbel to the east of the tower, a small fragment of medieval painting on the north wall of the nave depicting scrolls, an oil painting of Moses and Aaron with Exodus texts on the south wall of the nave, and a large poor board to the north. Two large carved oak chests, possibly German, one dated 1793 but of late medieval design, are housed within the chancel.