Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a mediaeval church situated beside Barrow Church Road. It comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, a south aisle, a south porch, and a north vestry. The building is constructed of flint rubble walls with black mortar pointing, featuring limestone dressings, and has a plaintiled roof.

The north side of the nave displays Norman walling with a restored window having widely-splayed reveals. A simple 13th-century doorway and three 15th-century three-light windows with tracery are also present. The south arcade features 14th-century chamfered arches resting on octagonal piers with moulded capitals, the bases of which are buried in the floor. The mid-13th-century chancel has clasping buttresses, a parapet gable with carved kneelers, and a restored quatrefoil vent at the apex of the east wall. The east window is composed of three tall, chamfered, stepped lancets grouped under a single arch, while the north and south sides feature restored two-light windows with tracery. A moulded 14th-century doorway on the north side leads into the vestry, and the chancel contains heavily restored arcaded sedilia and a piscina, alongside an aumbry on either side of the east window. The chancel arch is broad and 14th-century, with pilasters.

The large, unbuttressed early 13th-century tower was raised and altered in the 14th century, exhibiting crenellated parapets and lion-head gargoyles. It includes two-light belfry openings, blocked 13th-century openings at mid-height, and an internal 14th-century stair turret containing loop windows and an arched doorway with an original door. A broad, moulded 13th-century tower arch rests on square piers with chamfered reveals and abaci; this arch was blocked in the 14th century, with a moulded doorway being inserted. A wide west tower doorway was also blocked, superseded by a 19th-century door and window.

The 14th-century south aisle incorporates a 13th-century core. The west wall was lancet-arched and later crenellated. It features two-light restored windows, including a three-light east aisle window with net tracery, and a trefoil-headed opening with an inset quatrefoil below. The mid-14th-century porch has pilasters with base and capital mouldings and small quatrefoil openings on its sidewalls, topped by a sundial over the entrance. A chapel dedicated to St. Michael is located within the aisle, and contains a 14th-century sedilia, a canopied sepulchre, and a simple piscina.

Alterations made between 1848 and 1852 include the construction of a vestry in early Gothic style, the installation of scissor-braced coupled rafter roofs in the nave and chancel, and a purlin roof to the aisle. Most doors were replaced with oak, with the north door leaf featuring 13th-century style strap hinges. A limestone reredos and arcaded altar rails, both in a 13th-century style, were added, along with stained glass in the east window.

Other notable features include an octagonal font dating from around 1400, bearing sunk and tracery panels and escutcheons, mid-19th-century choirstalls incorporating parts of 16th-century benches with poppy-head ends—some featuring animal and human figures— and two 15th-century benches in the south aisle with square traceried ends. The nave pews are plain and date from around 1850. The church floor consists of 18th-century quarry tiles. It also features an oak eagle lectern, painted figures in the reveals of a Norman nave window, an Easter sepulchre tomb of Sir Clement Heigham (died 1570) made of Purbeck marble with a brass inscription, three 17th-century mural monuments on the south chancel wall (one dedicated to Sir John Heigham, died 1626, by John Stone, erected 1650), and a group of 18th-century limestone tombstones beside the chancel south wall with carved foliage at their heads.