Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a former parish church, now redundant, with fabric generally dating from the early 14th century. It is constructed of knapped flint, featuring brick and limestone dressings, and has slate roofs along with black-glazed pantiles on the south porch. The church includes a west tower, nave, chancel, south aisle, and south porch.

The west tower is square and unbuttressed, made of knapped and squared flint with limestone quoins and string courses. It has a plain parapet with roll-moulded coping, and two-light bell openings with square sound openings that have small quatrefoils, which were restored in the 20th century on the south and west sides. The south clerestorey has three quatrefoil windows, and there is fine flushwork panelling at the east and west ends of the clerestorey, with three panels at each end.

The south aisle features two windows with cusped 'Y'-tracery and hood moulds that have grotesque head-stops. The simple south porch, likely from the 15th century, includes a sun-dial in the gable. The south chancel wall has one blocked window opening and a repaired two-light window with 'Y'-tracery, as well as a small priest's door with a three-centred arch. There is a low blocked doorway in the north wall of the nave, which has been filled with later brickwork. Remains of a rood stair can be found at the junction of the nave and chancel in the north wall of the chancel.

The east window, dating from the 19th century, has a curvilinear design with a brick surround, and the upper quoins and gable parapet are made of red brick. Inside, the church features a 14th-century south arcade with three bays, double hollow-chamfered arches on octagonal piers and responds. The chancel arch has similar details, while the narrow tower arch has four orders of plain chamfers without pilasters.

There is an octagonal font from the 17th century with a heavily moulded base capital and bowl, the facets of which are carved with heads. The ceilings are plastered over, and the south aisle wall plate is supported on stone corbels. The base of the roof stair is located in the north-east corner of the nave, and there is a banner-stave recess in the north-west corner. The church contains a notable series of wall monuments, particularly those to Sir John Pettus (died 1698) and Dame Mary (died 1798) on the east wall of the south aisle, and to Thomas Pettus (died 1723) on the south wall of the aisle, as well as monuments to the Stracey family on the north wall of the nave.