Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church with origins dating to the 13th century, largely rebuilt in the 15th century, and with the upper stages of the West tower constructed in 1617. It was restored in the 19th and 20th centuries. The earliest parts of the church, including the lower stages of the West tower and the chancel arch, are built of limestone ashlar, while the 15th-century fabric is of sandstone rubble. The upper stages of the West tower are pink brick. The building has embattled mansard roofs, dating to the 19th century, covered in lead.

The church comprises a West tower, a nave with North and South aisles, North and South porches, and a chancel. The West tower is of the 13th century, with the two uppermost stages rebuilt in 1617. It has four stages, a splayed plinth, and an embattled parapet with four corner bulbous ogee finials dating to 1617. The West doorway is 13th century, of two hollow moulded orders within a two-centred arch with a label. The West window is of four lights with intersecting tracery, set within a two-centred arch, and was restored. The bell chamber openings have 13th-century intersecting tracery in their heads, likely reset around 1617. A sundial is located on the South West buttress; the clock was rebuilt and restored around 1980. A stair turret is situated in the North East angle.

The nave, dating to the 15th century, was built on the site of an earlier 13th-century church. It has an embattled parapet with a moulded main cornice, and beast gargoyles above a clerestory of five windows, each of two cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery. The South aisle and porch are contemporary with the nave and have similar, but larger, windows. The chancel is also 15th century, though its windows are restored.

The nave’s interior has five bays. Two-centred arches, of two hollow moulded orders, are set on octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases. A continuous moulded label with mask stops is above the nave arcades. The chancel arch is early 13th century, double chamfered, with 15th-century responds; these are half round with half-octagonal capitals. A 15th-century piscina and three-seat sedilia are within the four bays, each featuring a four-centred foiled arch on columns with engaged shafts, square heads with a frieze of quatrefoils above. A wall monument on the North wall of the chancel commemorates Mrs. Alice Rogers and her son, Richard Dacres, and features a white marble cartouche with drapery and cherub heads below a crest. The font has an octagonal bowl on an octagonal stem and dates to the 15th century.