Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a medieval parish church located in Beeston Regis. It is constructed primarily of flint with stone dressings and features lead and decorative tile roofing. The church comprises a tower, nave, north and south porches, north and south aisles, and a chancel.

The unbuttressed tower has flint quoins and a 2-light 19th-century Decorated west window with a stilted hood mould. A single light cusped opening to the west and south has been blocked. The tower was heightened and includes stone quoins, 2-light cusped Y-tracery bell openings, gargoyles, and a flushwork parapet. West windows to the north and south aisles are of 2 lights with panel tracery and square heads under hood moulds.

The nave, with its buttressed aisles and diagonal buttresses, has 2-light windows on both the north and south sides, similar to the aisle west windows. The north porch has been re-faced and includes a blocked doorway and a restored window. A rood stair is situated on an arched brick corbel. The clerestory features 3 windows on each side, each with 3 cusped lights, squared stone voussoirs, and knapped flint and galleted walling. East aisle windows are also of 3 lights, mirroring those to the west. Walls of the chancel have been heightened and include various 19th-century windows, a priest’s door with a continuous hollow chamfer, and a restored 3-light Decorated east window.

The south porch, added post-medieval, is buttressed and features brick dentils to the eaves. The archway has shafts, polygonal abaci and bases, a hollow chamfered arch, a moulded hood mould, and knapped flint paving. It is capped with a pointed barrel vault. The nave doorway has a continuous chamfer and a hood mould.

The 14th-century nave arcades have polygonal shafts, abaci, and bases, with 2 chamfered orders to the arch. The nave features an arch-braced roof, supported by timber shafts with polygonal abaci and bases resting on stone corbels, with crenellations to some of the south corbels. Arch-braced roofs also extend to the aisles, with rose basses, and arches supported by stone corbels, some carved with heads. A stoup is located beside the south door. A piscina is present in the south aisle. Re-used poppy-head bench-ends are found in the aisles. A rood stair is located in the north aisle. A 15th-century rood screen features panels depicting Apostles and a vine trail to the middle rail. Crowned head corbels adorn the eastern arcade responds, with a queen to the south and a king to the north. The rendered tower arch includes vase-like capitals, a setback, and an opening with a wide splay. The chancel arch has polygonal shafts, bases, and abaci, with 2 chamfered orders to the arch. An ogee-headed piscina and sedilia are present, along with a 17th-century communion rail. A brass floor marker in the chancel commemorates John and Katherine Deynes, who died in 1527, depicting two figures approximately one foot high.