Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, with reworking in the 20th century. The chancel is partly constructed of clunch and red brick, while the rest of the church is of cobblestones with ashlar dressings. The building comprises a chancel, nave, a south aisle, and a west tower.

The chancel was rebuilt in the 15th century, and has a 19th-century three-light east window. The north and south elevations both feature 15th-century square-headed two-light windows. A three-light segmental-headed window on the south elevation is blocked by the Anderson monument. A 15th-century north doorway is set under a square label with a shield in the spandrels. The chancel also contains a 14th-century chancel arch.

The nave dates to the 14th century and has a pointed three-bay arcade to the south. A 14th-century three-light window with 15th-century tracery is found on the north elevation, alongside a 14th-century pointed doorway. The clerestory was added in the 15th century, featuring three two-light square-headed windows on each side.

The south aisle, also dating to the 14th century, includes a 15th-century rood staircase in the northeast angle. The east wall contains a three-light pointed window. The south elevation has two two-light windows, the eastern one with a square head and the western with a pointed head. A 14th-century pointed doorway is also present.

The west tower is from the 15th century. The spire and upper stages were removed in the 20th century following lightening damage and now only the lower stage remains, capped with a gabled pantile roof. Set-back buttresses are visible. The tower has a pointed-arched two-light window on its west side.

Inside, the chancel roof retains some 15th-century features. 15th-century altar rails with turned balusters are also present, along with fragments of medieval stained glass in various windows. An octagonal font from the 15th century is located in the south aisle. The chancel incorporates several monuments to the Anderson family. A monument to Sir Edmund Anderson, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (1605) depicts two recumbent alabaster effigies on an altar tomb, with kneeling figures of children below, a canopy supported by Corinthian columns, and heraldic cresting. The monument to Sir Francis Anderson (1616), also in alabaster, shows a partially intact kneeling figure of Sir Francis flanked by his two wives, with kneeling figures of children below. A southwest wall monument commemorates Edmund Anderson, his wife and daughter (1638), featuring half figures of Edmund and his wife holding a heart, surmounted by a semi-circular arch, with a further open segmental pediment containing a half figure of a child holding a book and flanked by allegorical figures. The chancel floor includes brasses depicting Sir Richard Gadbury (1624) and his wife Margaret, along with floor slabs marking the graves of Dame Mary Anderson (1667), Alice Viscountess Verulam and Baroness of St Albans (1656), Catherine Anderson (1705), and other members of the Anderson family.