Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with significant additions and modifications in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, and a restoration in 1863/4. It is constructed of rubble flint with freestone dressings, and has C20 plaintiled roofs to the nave and chancel.

The church comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, north and south aisles, and a north transept. The small, unbuttressed west tower has three stages and features fine grotesque gargoyles below the parapet, which was added in 1864, along with pinnacles. The north nave wall retains remnants of coursed rubble flint construction, and a single Y-tracery window is visible at the west end of the south wall. A 12th-century south doorway has a single order of shafts with unique volute capitals and a roll-moulded arch.

The south porch is from the 15th century, built with black knapped flint and displaying a shallow gabled parapet with stone quatrefoils, a central niche, and crocketted pinnacles. The nave has a two-bay open timber roof with ogee-mouldings to the joists and cross beams, including a notable carved boss depicting a bearded human face with a protruding tongue. The chancel contains windows in the Decorated style, with flowing tracery to the north windows and evidence of earlier window openings within the walling. The east window has reticulated tracery in three lights.

The north transept has a shallow-pitched lead roof and was extensively restored in 1864. The north aisle features 2-light Perpendicular windows. The south aisle, of late 15th century origin, is the same height as the nave and extends beyond the nave's east end, displaying three 2-light Perpendicular windows and a renewed 3-light east window. A crenellated parapet with flushwork panels bearing initials, shields, and the inscription 'IHS HAVE MERCY' runs along the south side, with gargoyles below.

Inside the nave, a fine set of eight pairs of 15th-century benches with poppyheads are present, with one pair also featuring carved animals on the armrests. The north aisle also contains three benches in a similar style. The nave's roof is a plain scissor-braced rafter structure, while the north aisle’s roof showcases ogee-moulded main timbers, arched bracing, and carved bosses. The south aisle’s roof was restored in the 19th century.

A 15th-century doorway with panelled jambs and carved spandrels connects the east end of the north aisle to the north transept, which is now used as a vestry. The south aisle incorporates a simple piscina and remains of niches in the south-east and north-east angles, the former showing a decorated canopy. The chancel has been Victorianized and features a boarded, decorated roof.