Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church with medieval origins, extensively restored in the 19th century. It comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, north aisle, and a south porch, with an organ chamber and vestry added around 1870. The church is constructed of random flint rubble, with an area of 12th-century coursed flintwork to the north of the chancel. The 19th-century refacing utilises rounded uncut flints, contrasted by freestone dressings. The nave and chancel have plaintiled roofs with parapet gables, while the porch and aisle are slate-roofed.

Significant 13th-century features include a south nave doorway with a hoodmould and nook shafts, a medieval plank door with original ironmongery, two 2-light chancel windows (one with a surrounding arch, the other without), and a small lancet window in the north wall, potentially dating back to the 12th century. The north aisle was added in the mid-14th century, featuring a blocked hoodmoulded doorway with a surviving grotesque corbel, and square-headed 2-light windows. The tower, also of mid to late 14th-century origin, has a parapetted roof with a boarded spirelet. Its base displays a frieze of flushwork arcading, alongside a hoodmoulded west doorway and a dagger-traceried window above. Nave windows from the late 15th century are partially restored or decayed.

A good example of early 16th-century work is the red brick south porch, which boasts arcaded panels with trefoiled terracotta heads, flushwork infilling, a labelled and hoodmoulded brick doorway with shafts, and a terracotta image niche above. It also has side windows with trefoil-headed lights and a roof with arch-braced principals rising from shafts. The base of a pillar stoup remains nearby.

Internally, a mid-14th century four-bay nave arcade features clustered polygonal shafts with moulded capitals supporting arches chamfered in two orders. Rood loft stairs incorporate two square-headed doorways. An ogee-headed 14th-century image niche is located beside the east chancel window. The nave roof dates to around 1500, consisting of 7 bays of collarbeam trusses, archbraces to the high collars, and short king posts. The roof edges feature a moulded and embattled cornice. A plain lean-to aisle roof also originated in around 1500. The chancel roof is a 19th-century reproduction of the nave roof, but with a more elaborate cornice. A 15th century chancel arch connects the nave and chancel. The octagonal font, with a plain bowl, is of mid-14th century design. Surviving features include fine 15th-century poppyhead benches situated in the nave, bearing carved creatures on the buttresses, and several reused ends incorporated into 19th-century benches. A unique 1619 square pulpit is notable for its arcaded panels, heavy bulbous legs, a cantilevered sounding board supported by a crown and ramped scrolls. An early 17th-century arcaded altar reredos, and later 17th-century altar rails with barley-sugar balusters are also present. Three painted hatchments are located in the chancel, with two in the nave. Three marble slabs in the sanctuary floor commemorate 18th-century members of the Smith family.