Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating from the medieval period with later additions. Constructed primarily of flint with stone and brick dressings, the church features a graded slate roof. The building comprises a west tower, nave, south porch, and chancel.

The embattled west tower, dating from the 15th century, has diagonal buttresses on its west face. A curved stair turret with slit windows and circular lights rises from the north face. The restored west window is of 3 lights, and two light Perpendicular bell openings are present. One of the ringing chamber openings incorporates a shield in the tracery, and hood moulds are visible above the windows.

The 3-bay, buttressed nave has post-medieval brick buttresses on the north side. The north doorway features continuous moulding that smoothly transitions into the arch, incorporating two rolls, and a hood mould. A 19th-century lancet window is also present. Two late medieval 3-light windows with embattled demi-transoms, set within 4-centred arches and brick voussoirs, are located on the north side. Remains of a buttress are visible beside the eastern window. South side windows mirror the north, with the western window having been restored. The unbuttressed chancel has two bays and two restored 2-light windows with reticulated tracery on the south side. A priest’s door, with roll, hollow, and fillet moulding and a hood mould, sits between these windows. The east window features 3 lights with cusped reticulated tracery.

The 15th-century porch is constructed of knapped flint and is embattled to the west. It incorporates a cusped 2-light window with a quatrefoil light in its spandrel, all under a hood mould. The doorway features shafts with polygonal abaci, quatrefoils enclosing shields in the spandrels, and a row of similar quatrefoils with shields above the door. A square-headed window of 3 cusped lights, the central light having a bracket, is also present, hooded above. A chequered flushwork parapet tops the porch.

The interior features early 20th-century roofs. A tall tower arch has a chamfered arris and an inner arch. The chancel arch has been restored with polygonal shafts and abaci, and a chamfered arch. Re-used poppy-head bench-ends are in the chancel, and the restored chancel windows feature shafts and foliated capitals to the rere-arch. A restored octagonal font displays cusped tracery on the panels of the bowl. Painted wooden Stuart arms are also visible, along with a 19th-century rere-arch to the north lancet.