Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with substantial alterations and extensions during the 14th and 15th centuries, and a restoration in 1852-3 by F. Preedy and again in 1887-8. The church is constructed of lias with ashlar dressings, and has a stone slate and slate roof. It comprises a 12th-century nave, a 14th and 15th-century south aisle, a late 15th-century west tower, and a 14th-century chancel.

The three-stage west tower has an offset top stage, diagonal buttresses, and a crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles. The belfry has square-headed, louvred windows, and the ground stage has square-headed windows. The south wall of the nave and south aisle features a 19th-century south porch in the west bay with a two-centred head to the outer openings. The doorway here has a two-centred head of two orders, the outer order roll moulded, with a restored respond and shafts. Subsequent bays have windows with square heads and two trefoiled lights, followed by two square-headed windows. The clerestory has three windows, each with two trefoiled lights under a four-centred head. The east window of the aisle is a four-centred arch with three trefoiled lights. The north wall contains a 12th-century doorway with a semi-circular head and plain impost blocks, and a large central window of the 15th century with three trefoiled lights under a four-centred head. Two clerestory windows are also present.

The chancel was rebuilt in the 14th century and heavily restored in the mid-19th century. The south wall contains a window with two cinquefoiled lights, flanked by windows with two trefoiled lights, all under square heads. A central window sits above a square-headed door between two buttresses, all restored. The east window has three trefoiled lights under a segmental head with a label. A mid-19th-century north vestry/organ chamber adjoins the north side.

Inside, the tower arch is segmental pointed with two chamfered orders. The arcade to the south aisle consists of three bays; the east bay has a flattened four-centred arch of two chamfered orders, and the other two bays have two-centred arches with two hollow moulded orders continuous down the piers. The chancel arch is segmental pointed with two chamfered orders. A corbel supports a statue in the east wall of the south aisle, and an arcade respond features a stone statue canopy with a nodding ogee. A rood loft stair is placed within the wall thickness at the north-east corner of the nave. The roofs are all 19th century; the nave features king-post trusses with trefoil panels in the spandrels, while the chancel has arch-braced collar trusses in a 14th-century style, with 19th-century painted decoration. Glass from the 15th century is found in the tympanum of the blocked north door. Other fittings are of mid- to late-19th-century date.