Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating to the late 13th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th century, repairs in 1733, and a restoration in 1902. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and plain tiled roofs. The church consists of a west tower, a nave, and a chancel.

The 14th-century two-stage tower has diagonal buttresses to the west and a flat east side, both featuring chequered flushwork. A diamond pattern flushwork base course sits below the 2-light west window of 1902, which is in an early Perpendicular style with hood and head stops. Trefoiled ringing chamber lights are located to the north and south, each under a square hood. To the south is a trefoiled statue niche, set within a crocketted ogee arch with a finial. A string course runs below the paired lancet belfry windows of 1756, topped by a brick crenellated parapet of the same date.

The gabled south porch has diagonal buttresses and a wave-moulded entrance arch with a hood terminating in 19th-century head stops, set below a brick relieving arch. A square statue niche is positioned above, and the sides have 2-light windows under square hoods. There is one mid-14th century early Perpendicular 2-light nave window to the south, and two similar windows to the north, all with hoods on grotesque stops. To the east is a re-set (in 1733) 2-light plate tracery window: a double lancet with hollow cut mouldings, featuring a super arch over spandrels punched with rounded quatrefoils. A parapet defines the nave and, narrower, chancel, with a 2-light intersecting window of 1902 and a plain arched priest’s door. The east window is a 3-light cusped intersecting window from around 1300, with a hood on head stops and a blocked roll-moulded roundel above. One 13th-century lancet is present to the north chancel, along with a square 19th-century vestry with a rising gabled dormer featuring a Y window (providing light to the organ loft) of the same date. Three flat buttresses are visible on the north nave wall, alongside a moulded and arched north door.

The interior features a double hammerbeam nave roof of 1902, with solid arched braces to the wall posts carved with flower and diaper motifs, and pierced tracery spandrels. Collars and two tiers of moulded butt purlins are also present. The chancel roof is barrel vaulted and dates to 1902. The south plate tracery window has roll-moulded jambs and a filleted depressed rere arch; the east jamb is truncated to accommodate a 13th-century angle piscina. The piscina has a trefoiled ogeed arch resting on round columns with capitals, and is later than the window in which it is situated. Fragments of medieval glass are found within the quatrefoils of this window and in the head of the window opposite. A hollow chamfered chancel arch is late 13th century. An empty sedilia niche is within the chancel, revealing fragments of late 13th-century painted diaper on the rear wall. A double piscina is contained within a square surround. The 15th-century octagonal font has ogee tracery on its stem, with head corbels beneath the bowl and roll-moulded stem panels featuring curved shields and floral patterns. Three brasses are embedded in the nave floor, representing William Berdewell and his wife (1508), William Berdewell (circa 1490) and his wife, and Ralph Fuloflore, a priest (1479). All are of high quality, with inscriptions at the foot, the priest depicted in mass vestments.