Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating to the earlier and late 14th century, with 15th-century additions and some work from 1870, particularly to the chancel, by Sir G.G. Scott. The church is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings, primarily of Totternhoe stone, and has clay tile roofs. It comprises a chancel, a north vestry, a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower. The entire building features embattled parapets.

The late 14th-century chancel was reworked in 1870. It has a large 5-light east window with a 4-centred head, and two similar windows of 3-lights on the north and south elevations. A pointed-arched south doorway is situated under a square head. An external canopied tomb commemorates Thomas Awdley, who died in 1531. A north doorway provides access to the north vestry, which was originally two-storied with flat-headed windows to the east. A 14th-century pointed chancel arch connects the chancel to the nave.

The earlier 14th-century nave was heightened in the 15th century with the addition of a clerestory. It contains four-bay arcades on both sides, and four clerestory windows per side, each of three lights with 4-centred heads. The north aisle, also 14th-century and heightened in the 15th, has pointed-arched 3-light windows, mostly with 19th-century tracery, three to the north elevation and one each to the west and east. A pointed-arched north doorway provides entry. The south aisle mirrors the north aisle in design, also heightened in the 15th century, with similar fenestration but lacking an east window. A pointed-arched south doorway is present. The 19th-century south porch has 3-light, 4-centred arched windows to the west and east, and a pointed archway.

The west tower was built in 1393, comprising three stages with angle buttresses to the west, the one to the southwest clasping an octagonal stair turret. The bell stage has 2-light pointed-arched windows on each side. The ground stage of the west elevation has a pointed-arched doorway surmounted by a 3-light pointed-arched window.

Inside, the nave and aisles retain 15th-century moulded roofs. Remains of wall paintings are visible at the east end of the nave and in the south aisle, alongside lead stars (originally gilded) at the east end of the nave. The chancel features a hammerbeam roof designed by Scott. Nave and aisle pews retain some 15th-century panelling. The 15th-century chancel pewing includes unusual poppyheads carved with angels, dragons, grotesques, and dogs. Fragments of medieval glass are reset in various windows, including black bulls' heads and dolphins in the chancel and a variety of heraldic shields in the aisles. A late 14th-century octagonal font has carved crocketed canopies on its sides, one side being plain. Patches of 15th-century wall paintings remain, including a depiction of St Christopher above the north aisle door and Christ sitting in judgment with emblems of crucifixion above the chancel arch. Later texts in black and white are also present. A tomb chest in the chancel contains brasses to John Conquest, his wife Isabel (d.1493), and their son Richard, along with smaller brasses of their nine sons, five daughters, and the evangelist symbols. A smaller brass commemorates Richard Conquest (d.1500) and his wife Elizabeth. A monument to Thomas Archer, Rector (d.1629), in the form of a polychrome preaching figure in a niche, is set into the north chancel wall.