Church Of All Saints

Parish church, mainly of the 13th and 14th centuries, with part of the north arcade dating from the late 12th century. The building comprises a 14th-century west tower, nave, chancel, vestry and south porch, with a 13th-century north aisle and north chapel. The church is notable for its late 12th-century north arcade and the woodwork in the roof of the north aisle and the screen between the chancel and nave.

The exterior is built in limestone rubble and some dressed stone, with ironstone to the buttresses and parapets. The 14th-century west tower is five stages tall, with string courses between stages and a newel staircase at the south-east angle. It features four-stage angle buttressing, a 14th-century doorway, west window and openings to the bell chamber, all below an embattled parapet with a moulded main cornice decorated with beast, bird and head masks and grotesque gargoyles at the angles. The broach spire is of limestone ashlar with two tiers of gabled spire lights.

The 14th-century nave has an embattled parapet with moulded main cornice. The south wall contains two restored 14th-century windows of three trefoil lights, while the north wall is lit by a clerestorey with three 14th-century windows. The 14th-century south porch is gabled with moulded coping and features outer and inner arches of similar design with two moulded orders in a two-centred head. The gable end contains a reset 12th-century carved stone of a man and a beast, possibly representing St Anthony and the Hog. The interior of the porch preserves fragments of sculptured relief showing a bishop on a colonette.

The 14th-century chancel has a 19th-century roof of three bays. The south wall contains two windows of two cinquefoil lights, the western example having a low side window. The east window is of restored 15th-century date.

The interior reveals a north arcade of three full and two part bays. The two bays and one part bay to the west date from the late 12th-century church and feature two-centred arches of one chamfered order carried on cylindrical columns with moulded bases, scalloped capitals and square abacii. The eastern bays are of late 13th-century date with two chamfered orders to two-centred arches on cylindrical columns with alternate octagonal and round capitals decorated with nail head ornament. Between the chancel and north chapel is a late 13th-century two-centred arch of two chamfered orders. One squint opening connects the north chapel and chancel, and a square opening in the north wall of the chancel, between the vestry and chancel, may have been a confessional.

The north aisle possesses a fine 15th-century roof of five bays with principal rafters with bracing and jackposts carried on carved corbels. The intermediate principals have figures of angels carved to the soffits. The main beam is moulded and has bosses at intersections.

In the south wall of the chancel stands a 14th-century angle piscina featuring a trefoil head in a pointed arch on two sides and a common octagonal shaft at the angle. Also in the south wall of the chancel is a 14th-century stoup with moulded jambs and a two-centred head.

A fine screen of late 15th- or early 16th-century date separates the chancel from the nave. It features ribbed coving carried on a screen of two bays and a larger central opening, each bay containing three lights. Below the dado, the closed panels are painted with figures of saints, and some original paint remains visible. Fragments of a 14th-century screen from Tilbrook Church are held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.