Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating from the medieval period, with significant restoration work undertaken in 1871-2 and 1879. It comprises a nave, chancel, north and south aisles (each with a chancel chapel), a west tower, north and south porches, and a north vestry. The exterior is constructed of flint rubble, largely faced in knapped flint, with stone dressings. The nave and chancel have slated roofs, while the aisle roofs are leaded.

The church features a fine, four-stage tower of the 15th century, topped with a crenellated parapet. It displays flushwork on the buttresses and parapet, along with stone panelling to the plinth. A polygonal stair turret rises above the parapet on the south side. The west doorway is moulded and enriched with crowns and fleurons, with rose-carved spandrels. Above this is a tall, three-light window flanked by canopied image niches. Two-light belfry openings are also present. The nave has origins in the 14th century, incorporating a 15th-century clerestory and aisles. The windows are mostly renewed or significantly restored in a Perpendicular style. A range of ten two-light clerestory windows are arranged in four pairs with a single window at each end. The 15th-century porches have been much restored. The chancel, dating from the 14th century, was refaced in 1879. It has a restored two-light south window and a five-light east window dating from 1879, both featuring 14th-century internal hoodmoulds with carved stops; the east window also incorporates shafting.

Internally, the church has a five-bay aisle arcade of the 14th century. The chancel arch and most of the chapel arches were reformed in the 1870s. The 15th-century nave roof was repaired in 1871-2 and retains arch-braced embattled tie beams with 19th-century painted texts, arched-braced principal rafters, and many original fleuron bosses. The chancel and aisle roofs were replaced in the 1870s, and the south chapel roof was restored. A fine 15th-century canopied niche with a trellis vault is found in the north chancel wall. Drop-sill sedilia with trefoil-headed niches in the reveals are also present, alongside a 19th-century piscina. The north chapel has an original piscina and aumbry. The tower stair features a good original door enriched with fleurons. A 15th-century octagonal font has a bowl with panels carved alternately with angels bearing shields and with the signs of the Evangelists, and an inscribed plinth. Later 19th-century furnishings are also present. A wall monument to Elizabeth White (1840) is located in the chancel. At the base of the tower, a series of photographs document the church before, during, and after the restoration, including interior views.