Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to the late 13th century. It was significantly altered in the early 14th century with the construction of a tower, and again in the 15th century with the addition of the nave and north aisle. A restoration occurred in 1852.

The church is built of flint with ashlar quoins and has slate roofs. The three-stage tower features diagonal flushwork buttresses on the west face and flat buttresses on the east. The west face includes a niche below a two-light cusped Y-shaped window. Lancet windows are positioned on each side of the second stage, the southern one being trefoiled. Two-light belfry windows are flanked by reticulation units to the east and west, with ogee shapes to the north and south. A battleated parapet tops the tower.

A 19th-century gabled north porch includes a low parapet on kneelers and a moulded arch. The nave features three flat buttresses and three three-light perpendicular windows with panel tracery, set within pointed segmental arches and hood moulds. An additional diagonal buttress stands to the east of the north aisle, along with a similar east window.

The south chancel is lit by a renewed lancet window and a two-light decorated window featuring a double reticulation pattern. The east gable is supported by kneelers, and the east window (dated 1852) has four trefoiled lights with sub-arches, encircled cinquefoils and a vesica containing a pattern of trefoils. The south side of the chancel incorporates a two-light decorated window mirroring the north side, a two-light Y-shaped window (1852) and an arched priest’s door. A substantially 15th-century two-storey south porch has a gabled form above a square parvis window and a wave-moulded arch with hood. Diagonal buttresses are present.

The interior features a three-bay north arcade with hollow chamfers and continuous rolls resting on polygonal bases; the responds have polygonal capitals however, the arcade possesses no capitals. The nave roof was reconstructed in 1852, showcasing arched braces dropping to corbels, single butt purlins, and a braced ridge piece with fleuron bosses. The north aisle roof is similarly constructed. The perpendicular chancel arch has octagonal responds with polygonal capitals and a double-chamfered arch with a wave to the west. The chancel roof (1852) has a battleated wall plate and arched braces on corbels carved with naturalistic foliage. A screen from 1852 spans six bays, and displays an arched opening below ribbed coving, to both the east and west. A late 13th-century double piscina is in the form of window tracery, comprising two trefoiled arches on circular shafts with moulded capitals supporting an encircled quatrefoil. The font features a 14th-century bowl on a 19th-century stem, the bowl being decorated with encircled quatrefoils and two-light tracery patterns.