Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating to the 14th century, though the layout suggests an earlier church existed on the site. It comprises a west tower with a broach spire, a nave, a north aisle, a south chapel, and a chancel.

The west tower, built in the late 14th century, is constructed of pebble and rubble stone with ashlar detailing on the diagonal buttressing and quoins. A 15th-century newel staircase is set into the south-east corner, within a half-octagonal projection. The tower has two stages and a bell stage, with a splayed plinth and string courses between stages. The restored west doorway has two chamfered orders beneath a four-centred head. A 15th-century window on the west face has three cinquefoil lights set within a four-centred head, with a label and plain returns. The bell chamber has two-light openings with cinquefoil heads in two-centred arches, with a moulded label acting as a string course. The broach spire sits on an octagonal base and includes 17th-century obelisk pinnacles to the broaches, one of which has been cut down. Two tiers of gabled spire lights are present.

The nave, dating to the mid-13th century, is built of rubble and pebble stone and has a plain tiled roof with crested ridge tiles and two gabled dormers on the south side, each with leaded lights in pointed arches. The chancel, also dating to the mid-13th century, is constructed with pebble and rubble stone, has a plain tiled roof, and a gable end parapet. A 13th-century north doorway features chamfered jambs in a two-centred head with a roll-moulded label and run-out stops. A two-light window replaces an earlier 15th-century opening. The east window, early 13th century, has been much restored in the 16th or 17th century. Two early 13th-century windows are in the south wall, one with two lights and one with three lights, incorporating intersecting tracery set within two-centred arches.

The south chapel, dating to the 14th century, is of pebble rubble construction on a plinth. The east window has five trefoil lights set in a four-centred head with defaced mask stops. Two restored 14th-century windows, each with two lights in ogee arches with square heads, are also present. The south porch was rebuilt in 1902 using pebble stone and rubble, incorporating fragments of earlier architecture and a medieval tomb slab depicting a priest in vestments.

The church interior includes a 13th-century north arcade of four bays, with two-centred arches of two chamfered orders on round columns and capitals, the bases being concealed by a raised floor. A late 13th- or early 14th-century south arcade with two bays has two-centred arches on octagonal piers. A 16th-century pent roof has original chamfered beams and a moulded wall plate. A 19th-century nave roof of four bays retains two 17th-century roof trusses, with jackposts supported on stone corbels. The north aisle has a 16th-century roof of five bays with moulded principals and longitudinal beams, and two surviving jackposts which formerly supported bracing on corbels. A 15th-century rood staircase is located in the south-east corner, accessed through a four-centred, hollow-moulded arch. The 13th-century chancel arch has been rebuilt as a two-centred arch of one chamfered order. A 13th-century piscina is set in the south wall of the chancel, consisting of two chamfered orders in two-centred heads on round columns with moulded octagonal capitals and bases. A 14th-century font has a tapering octagonal bowl on a round stem with a plinth; each face of the bowl is carved. Fragments of 16th-century woodwork remain in a bench at the west end of the nave.