Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church, now serving as a chapel of ease, with possible Anglo-Saxon origins and architectural elements from the 12th century Norman, 13th century Early English, and 15th century Perpendicular styles, along with later rebuildings and modifications from the 16th century and beyond. The structure is built of rubble flint with brick dressings, clunch, and red and black glazed pantiles.

The church features the base of a collapsed west tower, a three-bay nave, a demolished three-bay south aisle, a north porch, and a two-bay chancel. Only the north wall of the tower remains. The west gable is made of clunch and includes a lower single domestic casement and an upper stone splayed window, which may date back to the Anglo-Saxon period. The building has brick quoins, kneelers, and a parapet, topped with a wooden bellcote.

On the north side of the nave, there is one 13th century lancet window and one 15th century window that has been blocked by a circa 1600 chamfered brick mullioned and transomed window. The south porch features a 14th century Decorated arch with a drip mould and heads, with the arch dying into splays, stone quoins, and brick kneelers and parapet from the 17th century. The inner stone Norman arch has simple imposts and chamfers, which are repeated in the opposed south door.

The south side of the nave has three built-up aisle arches that have been blocked with clunch, along with two inserted circa 1600 chamfered brick mullioned and transomed windows with drip mould heads. There are three eaves level windows on both sides with tapered sides and double splays, suggested to be of Anglo-Saxon origin but possibly inspired by 1600 domestic architecture. The nave roof is steeply pitched with brick dentil eaves cornices.

The chancel has a single lancet window on the north side and two windows on the south side, one of which is blocked and the other featuring inserted brick lancets from circa 1600. The east window has square-headed quadruple brick lancets from the same period, along with a brick dentil eaves cornice and two angle buttresses.

Inside, the church has a simple rounded chancel arch without imposts or chamfer. There is a 14th century font with an octagonal shaft that is damaged. The boarded arched roof features simple strut trusses from the 17th or 18th century. The interior includes box pews and a cut-down former decker pulpit. On the south side of the chancel, there is tracery from a blocked 14th century window.