Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to the 14th century, with 15th-century elements, and restorations in 1870 and 1871. The chancel was rebuilt in 1871 by R.J. Withers. It is constructed primarily from carstone and flint, with ashlar dressings, and covered by slate roofs. The building comprises a west tower, nave, a south transeptal chapel, and a chancel.

The three-stage west tower has angle buttresses to the second stage, and a wave moulded west door below a two-light reticulated window with ogee cusped lights. Square lancet lights are present in the ringing chamber, and two-light Y belfry windows, with a hood continuing as a string course around the tower. Crenellations of carstone and brick top the tower. A stair turret is located on the south-east corner. A substantially rebuilt gabled south porch has two-light, square-headed side windows. The nave has two three-light 15th-century windows to the south and north, with depressed arches and ogee lights with rising supermullions linked by a transom. The south transeptal chapel, under a catslide roof with diagonal buttresses, features a late 14th-century two-light Perpendicular window with a square head. The east chancel window, dating to approximately 1340-50, is a two-light window with a square hood; each light is trefoiled with the centre cusp split back to arch. A circular punched roundel sits within the spandrel between the arches. The chancel itself was rebuilt in 1871, and includes a three-light intersecting window, a two-light Y traceried window separated by a buttress, eastern angle buttresses, and a three-light window of exuberant flowing form. A vestry abuts the north chancel, with angle buttresses, two-light cusped windows, an arched door, and a lean-to roof. A chimney stack is built into and flush with the chancel wall. A blocked north doorway is also present.

Inside, a double chamfered tower arch provides access. The nave features a 15th-century hammerbeam roof of five trusses with shallow arched braces dropping to hammerposts carved as angels. Further arched braces extend to the wall posts from restored 19th-century corbels. Alternate principals are supported on short wall posts alone. The roof displays prominent ashlaring above a coved wall plate with a decorated cornice. Collars are present on the hammerbeam trusses, and one tier of moulded butt purlins with bosses at the intersection with the principals. Five 15th-century benches remain in the nave, with carved tracery patterns below poppy heads; five similar bench ends are applied to 19th-century benches. A plain octagonal 14th-century font is also present. An undercut and wave moulded arched tomb recess from approximately 1330 is cut into the north nave wall. The south chapel roof dates to the 15th century and exhibits moulded principals dropping to wall posts through arched braces, a heavy moulded wall plate, and one tier of moulded butt purlins with bosses at the intersection with the principals.