Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a late 19th-century church, built in 1872 by Somers Clarke. It incorporates a 14th and 15th-century tower that remains from an earlier church. The building is constructed of rock-faced sandstone with tile roofs. The church comprises a nave, a tower at the west end of the south aisle, a south porch, a south vestry and chapel, a south aisle under a pitched roof, a chancel, a north porch, and a north organ chamber.

The tower features diagonal buttresses and a west window of three lights with reticulated tracery under a pointed head. A sandstone sundial tablet is situated on the south side of the tower, and the bell openings are of two trefoiled lights under a pointed head. The embattled parapet of the tower is topped with corner pinnacles. The west nave window has five lights with Geometrical tracery. The nave, which is five bays wide on the north side, has paired 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery, separated by buttresses. The north porch has a parapet and two windows. The chancel’s east window is of five lights with Geometrical tracery. To the south of the chancel is a single-storey vestry. The south chapel has two bays and 3-light windows with flat heads and intersecting tracery. The south aisle to the right of the chapel has two bays with 3-light windows featuring Geometrical tracery; a mid-20th-century doorway with a canopy sits beneath the right-hand window. A worn plaque is located in the east wall of the chapel, bearing dates of "1691" and "1871". A single bay sits between the chapel and the south porch; the gabled porch has a pointed arch moulded in two orders.

Inside the church, a baluster shaft, possibly dating to the late 11th century, is set into the wall at the base of the tower. A six-bay arcade has pointed arches chamfered in two orders, springing from piers with moulded capitals. The two western bays of the nave were partitioned in the mid-20th century to create a coffee bar and gallery, and the three western bays of the south aisle have had a first floor inserted. The roof is boarded and displays scissor-braced trusses. The pointed chancel arch is moulded and features corbelled shafts as responds. A font, believed to be from the 15th century, is octagonal with shields carved within quatrefoils. The chancel has a sandstone lining, a boarded barrel roof, and a mosaic floor. The east window has three inner arches carried on shafts, and a two-bay arcade sits between the chancel and the south chapel. The chapel has a scissor-braced king-post truss roof. The windows contain some 19th-century glass by Powell.