Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church, largely dating from the 14th century with a 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of flint, partially knapped, with ashlar dressings. The nave roof is covered with black glazed pantiles, while the chancel has a thatched roof.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave, and a chancel. The tower is of two stages, though the top stage was removed in 1910. It features diagonal western buttresses, a pointed lancet west window, small rectangular windows to the ringing chamber, and a staircase at the north-west corner. A triangular-headed window is visible on the east face below the original roof line. A low, pyramidal tiled roof, dating from 1910, tops the tower. A square, south porch has diagonal buttresses, a chamfered entrance arch resting on semi-circular responds with crenellated capitals and polygonal bases; this arch is constructed of rendered brick. Niches are positioned above the arch on either side. The porch is finished with a plain parapet with a roll moulded top. To the left of the porch is a single arched lancet window. Two restored Y-traceried windows are situated to the right, separated by a stepped buttress, replicated in the north nave wall. A brick eaves cornice runs along the nave, and the eastern nave gable head is adorned with carved heads. The south chancel wall contains two 2-light, trefoiled, square-headed windows, between which is an arched priest's door and a wall monument to John Watts (1709), featuring a square base below a coved, set-back inscription panel with an architrave resting on scrolled bases. The chancel has brick dentiled eaves. Diagonal east buttresses flank a 3-light, elongated, reticulated 14th-century east window. A 2-light Y-traceried window is positioned on the north chancel wall. The north nave door has roll and chamfer mouldings.

Inside, the tower doorway is double chamfered, and the chancel arch is also double chamfered, with polygonal reponds and capitals. The nave is covered by a 19th-century scissor-braced roof, and the chancel has a similar, but heavier timber roof. A 13th-century octagonal font is present, consisting of a central Purbeck marble column and bowl with eight subsidiary stone columns. The facets of the bowl feature two incised arches. Significant late 14th-century wall paintings are found on the north nave wall: to the left of the north doorway, an Annunciation to the Virgin; to the right of the door, St. Christopher; and to the east between the nave windows, Scenes of the Passion, some of which are no longer decipherable, extending into the jamb of the eastern nave window. A 15th-century chancel screen, comprised of three bays on each side of a cusped ogeed central opening, is also present. The lights above the dado are largely 19th-century. The dado's base features quatrefoils, and the spandrels of the arches at the top have carvings of winged angels, animals, a sacred heart, and other subjects.