Church of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church with a brick west tower dating from 1794. The remainder of the church is constructed of carstone with ashlar dressings and was rebuilt in the late 19th century, between 1869 and 1870, by G.E. Street. The church incorporates a late 14th-century south aisle. It has slate roofs throughout.

The two-stage west tower is supported by angle buttresses to its first stage, where the belfry is set back at a string course. It has a three-light timber west window, round openings to the north and south sides, arched belfry windows with a timber trellis screen, and a crenellated parapet. The south aisle’s west wall retains remnants of early 13th-century quoining, and features a three-light round-headed Perpendicular window. Flat buttresses run along the south flank, with three renewed three-light Perpendicular windows. A crenellated parapet tops the aisle. The east window is a three-light reticulated 14th-century window, with a diagonal buttress to the corner. The chancel's features include flat and diagonal buttresses, a two-light arched window to the south with a rounded trefoil in the head, a similar window to the north supporting a roundel, and a five-light intersecting east window decorated with trefoils and quatrefoils. A transeptal vestry is located to the north of the nave, covered by a gabled roof and featuring a depressed ogival door below a three-light window. The nave has flat buttresses and three three-light arched windows with reticulated or trefoiled patterns.

The interior features a four-bay arcade with octagonal piers on plinths, and moulded capitals supporting double-chamfered arches. The two eastern bays form part of a south-east chapel of reduced height, with two groups of four-light triforium openings above. All interior features are from the 19th century. The nave roof is constructed with tie beams and queen posts with arched braces to the collars, and trusses that become scissor braced above. The south aisle’s roof showcases arched braces pierced with wheel and tracery patterns. Several late 15th-century poppyheads remain on 19th-century benches.

Remains of a late medieval screen are located beneath a west gallery; three bays are present on both the right and left sides of an opening with a Perpendicular tracery head, the latter being completely renewed. Two similar parclose screens are found to the north and west of the south-east chapel. A large 19th-century oak eagle lectern stands in the church. A marble and ashlar pulpit of circular form, decorated in a polychromatic style is also present.

A wall monument commemorating Henry Howe and his wife, Ursula, is dated 1592. It is made of marble and features a strapwork surround framing three kneeling figures within a semi-circular, coffered arch. Shields are located in the spandrels below a plain architrave.