Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, with a 19th-century addition. It is constructed of rubble with knapped and squared chequer work flint, stone dressings, and C19 pin-tiled roofs.

The west tower is three stages and features cut stone quoined angle buttresses on its west face. It contains a largely C19 recut 4-light Perpendicular window on the west side, and three 2-light belfry windows with label stops. The tower is topped by a battlemented parapet of squared and knapped flint, featuring flushwork tracery, shields, and crocketted angle spirelets. The nave and aisles have four bays, with a north porch and a chancel.

The north aisle has two 2-light windows dating back to around 1300, featuring Y-tracery with trefoil heads and a central quatrefoil. Three further 2-light Decorated windows are also present, along with a north door in the east bay. The Perpendicular north porch is located in the west bay, and internal north and south relieving arches suggest the former position of a parvis above. The north and south windows of the aisle are two-light Perpendicular, with kneelers featuring figure carvings. The south aisle was added in 1892-95 and mirrors the details of the north aisle.

The chancel has a cut-stone plinth and knapped flint to window height, with cut-stone north and south buttresses, including one at the south-east featuring a mass dial. It contains two fine 3-light Perpendicular windows to the north and south, together with a south priest's door. The east gable is particularly notable for its fine flushwork and chequerwork, using squared and knapped black flint at the base and white flint above a stone ashlar flushwork band. A 3-light Flowing tracery east window is likely a C19 replacement for an earlier Perpendicular window. Niches are set into the gable, adorned with stone ogee vaults, bases, spandrel shields, and hood moulds.

Inside, the church features four-bay C13 Early English north and south arcades, with round piers possessing moulded bases and capitals, seat bases, and double hollow chamfered arches. A fine Decorated chancel arch and a Perpendicular tower arch are also present. The chancel is two bays in length. The roofs were replaced in 1892-95 and are richly arch-braced and wind-braced. A C13 Purbeck marble font features blank arches. The north aisle contains a C15 4-centred arch bordered by a hood mould around a sepulchre or tomb arched recess housing an earlier slab tomb, some medieval tiles also remain. The chancel contains monumental brasses, including a fine brass floor memorial dating back to 1420 depicting Sir William Calthorpe; a 1803 memorial to Rev. Emanuel Nelson, Vicar, by Flaxman; and memorials to Anne Everard (1841) and William Everard (1847), by J.G. Lough of London, in the Flaxman style. The church is of historical significance as the baptisms site of Admiral Lord Nelson, by his father.