Church Of All Saints

Church. The building dates from the late 15th century, with a nave and chancel (the nave slightly later), and includes a late 17th or early 18th-century south porch. The south aisle was destroyed, probably in the 17th century. The church was restored in 1899.

The external walls are built of dressed blue lias stone, partly covered in pebbledash, with ashlar dressings. The roof is of renewed and old tile.

The plan comprises a 2-bay chancel, 4-bay nave with west tower and south porch.

The chancel is covered in pebbledash and features later gabled diagonal buttresses with tiled gablets, quoins and a coped gable. The 3-light Perpendicular east window has a hood-mould with roundel stops. On the north side is a straight-headed 3-light window with double-chamfered mullions and cusped lights. A similar window on the south side, probably renewed in the 17th century, stands to the east of the priest's doorway with a 3-centred head and 17th-century relief decoration to the arch and label mould. The priest's door is a plank door with fleur-de-lys ends to its strap hinges.

The nave has a moulded plinth and off-set buttresses, including one diagonal buttress to the north-east and south-west. A cornice and crenellated parapet with continuous roll moulding and gargoyles run around the building (pinnacles are missing). The north side has a blocked Tudor-arched entrance with wide hollow-chamfer. Triple-chamfered mullioned windows of 3 plus 3 cusped lights with hollow-chamfered mullions and double-chamfered king mullions light this elevation. The south side contains an entrance with a 4-centred head in a hollow-chamfered architrave and an old door with feather battens, set in a hipped porch with segmental-headed arch. An ex-situ scratch dial is set to the jamb of this porch. A 3-plus-3-light window opens to the west. Two pointed arches with continuous hollow-chamfers stand to the east, with inserted 17th-century pegged wooden 4-light transomed windows and no crenellations above. A wall monument below commemorates Mary Medes (died 1708) and features a bolection-moulded inscription panel and pediment. A south-east squint with 2 small cusped lights is present.

The tower has alternate narrow courses, a moulded plinth and diagonal buttresses. It displays a cornice and crenellations similar to the nave, with 4 gargoyles. A 4-light west window shows Perpendicular tracery. Two 2-light double-chamfered mullioned bell-openings with cusped lights and louvres light the tower. A north-east stair turret is lit by a cusped light.

Internally, the chancel has a roof ceiled over collars, and a squint with 2 blocked quatrefoils visible below the lights. The 3-centred chancel arch has continuous hollow chamfers.

The nave contains a roof with ovolo-moulded tie beams and purlins. A 4-centred tower arch frames a Tudor-headed doorway to the right, which has a wide-boarded door. Rough beams support the upper floor of the tower.

Fittings in the chancel include 17th-century wainscoting in the east bay. A circa 1923 altar rail with turned balusters is present, along with plain early 20th-century stalls with enriched friezes and fleurons. The nave contains simple wainscoting. A timber pulpit on a coved base features linenfold panelling. The floor to the south-east preserves medieval encaustic tiles of Stonleigh patterns with heraldic and foliate designs. The floor to the north-east contains fragments of incised stones and part of an indent for a brass. A 19th-century octagonal font with tracery panels stands in the nave, and plain pews with vine, oak, thistle and other trail patterns decorate the backs. An organ installed in 1960 is positioned in the tower.

Memorials include brasses to Sir John Grevill (died 1546) and Sir Edward Grevill (died 1559) flanking the altar, both showing a figure in armour on an inscription panel. Three early 19th-century wall tablets commemorate members of the Adkins family of Milcote. A nave window contains lozenge quarries with boats bearing canopies, possibly representing an heraldic badge.