Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church containing medieval fabric largely rebuilt during the 19th century, with a 16th-century tower. It is constructed of knapped flint and red brick with limestone dressings, and has plain tiled roofs.

The early 16th-century west tower is of red brick with large panels of flint forming a chequer pattern. It has diagonal, staged buttresses, and a more massive south-east buttress incorporating a stair turret. The tower features square-headed sound openings with hollow-chamfered stone mullions and transoms. A blocked west doorway has a chamfered elliptical brick arch of four orders and a square drip mould; the spandrels were formerly plastered. Above the doorway is a three-light Perpendicular window with hollow-chamfered brick mullions, reveals and an elliptical arched head. A small square sound opening is above that, also with a hollow-chamfered mullion. The tower is topped with a flint embattled parapet above a coved string course.

The nave and chancel were refaced and remodelled in the 19th century, featuring two-light Perpendicular-style windows to each side of the central porch, with the western window square-headed and the eastern window having a four-centred arched head and stilted hood mould. A good south doorway dates from the 14th century, with an ogee-headed hood mould featuring a crocket finial and headstops depicting a king and queen. Staged buttresses are located at the east wall of the nave, and an area of the nave east gable is exposed in brick and flint. The chancel contains three two-light south windows with cusped and plain Y tracery, all from the 19th century, with staged buttresses dividing the bays. An east window with intersecting tracery is present, as is a three-light Reticulated east window to the chapel, with a hood mould on head corbels. The north wall of the chapel has a doorway with a four-centred head, transom and a two-light Perpendicular traceried fanlight above. A two-light Y tracery window is located at the north-west corner. The north wall of the nave has two three-light Perpendicular windows and a north doorway with plain stone jambs and an elliptical arched head of moulded brickwork.

Inside, a tall, narrow tower arch has five plain chamfers dying into the wall. A west gallery has a coved soffit. The roofs are from the 19th century. A traceried and canopied screen, originally from the 15th century but much restored in 1904, is present. A wide chancel arch leads to separate sub-arches to the chancel and chapel. The chapel has a boarded waggon roof with a cornice and contains plain pointed niches flanking the east window. A piscina is in the south-east corner, now heavily replastered. The north and south chancel arcades are of two bays, with double chamfered arches on polygonal piers and responds, now largely plastered over and disguised on the south side. A chest tomb with corner buttresses and angels bearing shields is located in the north-east bay. A narrow doorway leads to the chapel. An angle piscina has been reset in the jamb of the south-east chancel window. A brass memorial to Robert London (d.1627) is in the north-east corner of the nave. The font has an octagonal bowl, round stem on a square base, with four lions against the stem, alternating flowers and shields around the bowl, angel-corbels below the bowl, all set on an octagonal step. An elaborate font cover dates from 1904.