Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating mainly to the 14th century, with an early 16th-century west tower and 19th-century restorations. The chancel is not divided from the nave. The walls are largely of plastered flint rubble, although the north organ chamber and chapel are of 19th-century flint rubble. The roofs are red tiled, with pierced ridge tiles. The east window is a 19th/20th-century design of three lights with intersecting tracery in a two-centred arch, featuring a label and face stops. The south wall contains two 20th-century pointed arch windows with labels, and a blocked two-centred arched doorway between them. A 20th-century arch leads into the north chapel.

The church features diagonal buttresses to the east wall corners and two to the south wall. The nave has a 7-cant boarded roof with crenellated wall plates. A 14th-century piscina has chamfered jambs and a cinquefoil ogee head with a quatrefoil drain. The chancel includes a 19th-century mosaic reredos, metal communion rails and a probable 17th-century carved altar table. A mid-15th century screen has been restored and features eight bays, with a central bay having a septfoil, cusped ogee head, crocketed label, carved spandrels and traceried trefoil heads to the side bays.

The south wall of the nave contains a 15th-century window of three cinquefoil lights under a four-centred head, alongside a 20th-century two-light ogee window with cusping. The north wall has four windows, the easternmost being 14th-century with a single cinquefoil ogee light. The second window is 19th-century with three lights, incorporating fragments of 15th-century glass and segmental pointed head rear splays. The westernmost two are 19th/20th-century cusped two-light ogees with tracery and labels. There are three pierced iron louvres at plinth level. The south doorway is probably 14th-century, with moulded jambs and a two-centred arch. The nave roof is ceiled and plastered, incorporating two moulded tie beams, wall posts and brackets, as well as a moulded wall plate.

The west tower is of three stages with angled buttresses, crenellated with crocketed pinnacles, and includes a crenellated and angled south-east stair turret. The four-centred nave arch is of three chamfered orders. A blocked west doorway features a four-centred arch of four square orders. The restored west window is of three lights with intersecting tracery in a four-centred head with a moulded label. The bell chamber has a “dated valley roof of 1505 supported on a heavy beam”, as documented by C.A. Hewett in 1974, and reputedly houses five bells, three of which date from the 16th century. A set of eight handbells are located within the tower arch.