Church Of All Saints

Parish church. The core of the church dates to the 12th century, with a tower base potentially earlier, and a substantial restoration in the early 19th century. The church is constructed of flint with limestone dressings; the nave and chancel are rendered, and there is brick and conglomerate in the tower. The chancel is of 19th-century red brick, and the tower roof is thatched, while the nave and chancel are roofed with slate and the south porch with plain tiles.

The building comprises a nave, chancel, south porch, north aisle, and a north east tower. The west window of the nave is a small, single-light window with a pointed arch and attached colonettes. The south porch is a late 19th-century addition of knapped flint, featuring a two-light east and west window, a parapeted gable with a cross-finial. South nave and chancel windows are two-light windows with Y tracery. The east gable of the nave is weatherboarded. The east window, dating to the 15th century, is a three-light window with Perpendicular tracery. A tall east gable parapet is present. A rainwater hopper at the junction of the chancel and tower is dated 1819.

The tower is square and unbuttressed, with brick-dressed bell openings featuring elliptical arches. Chamfered stone dressings are found on the north side of the bell opening, while a double lancet is present in the north wall and a small double splayed slit window in the east wall. The western bell opening is infilled with red brick, partially masked by the north aisle roof. The north aisle, also from the early 19th century, is constructed of red brick with two two-light windows, one in Perpendicular style and the other with Y tracery. A lancet is in the west gable wall, topped by a parapeted gable with moulded stone kneelers.

The 12th-century north and south doorways are present in the nave; the north door features a single order of shafts on cushion capitals, a plain-chamfered inner arch, and a zigzag moulded hood. The south doorway is richly decorated, with two orders of decorated shafts, cushion and leaf-moulded capitals, arches with rope moulding, intersecting zigzags, and a hood mould of two orders of overlapping plates. The south door has elaborate ironwork dated 1819. The interior features a north arcade of two bays, with plain octagonal piers and chamfered arches. The nave and aisle ceilings are plastered, with a moulded coving. The chancel roof has butt-purlins and solid braces on wall-posts. A cusped piscina with a petalled bowl and a pedimented wall monument to Henry Webster (died 1694) is in the south-east corner of the chancel. An oval tablet to Thomas Webster (died 1794) and his wife Mary (died 1808) is located in the north-east corner of the chancel. A semicircular arched opening leads from the north chancel wall to the tower. The east window of the tower is double-splayed and set in a semicircular headed recess. Memorial slabs are laid in the nave floor; a notable example is that to Robert Gilbert (died 1671). The font, dating to the 15th century, is octagonal with a stem of cusped arcading and a bowl with winged angels bearing shields. The east window contains 16th-century and foreign glass, reportedly brought from Rouen by Lady Beauchamp Proctor around 1797.