Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a medieval church with a chancel that was rebuilt in 1874. It consists of a nave, chancel, west tower, and south porch, constructed from flint and septaria rubble, with rebuilding work from 1874 to 1877 using round flints, and features freestone dressings and parapet gables. The nave roof is slated, while the chancel and porch roofs are covered with plain tiles and have crenellated parapets.

The lower section of the nave wall dates back to the 12th century or earlier, with a Norman north window that was reconstructed in the 19th century. The church underwent alterations around 1300, including the addition of a north doorway with a sub-medieval oak door, a south doorway, and a doorway into the tower with an original battened oak door. The tower, also from around 1300, features 1-light moulded and cusped or 2-light Y-traceried openings. The top stage of the tower was raised around 1875, adding parapets and tall crocketed corner pinnacles.

Inside, the medieval nave has a coupled rafter roof with soulaces or scissor-bracing and a plastered soffit. A 15th-century tie-beam with folded leaf carved arch-braces may have been added later. There is a sanctus bell opening into the nave from the east tower wall. The 15th-century porch, heavily restored in 1877, has a pilastered arched opening and a figure of Christ in a canopied niche above, along with pinnacled corner buttresses, an inscription carved in a limestone band beneath the parapet coping, and two-light traceried square side windows.

The chancel, rebuilt in 1874, combines Decorated and Perpendicular Gothic styles and features a chancel arch with attached shafts on corbels, a reredos, and an east window made of limestone with marble shafts. The chancel roof has coupled rafters with scissor-bracing, a cornice on corbels, purlins, and a central runner. The church also contains a plain octagonal 15th-century font, an octagonal mid-17th-century pulpit, and simple 16th-century poppyhead benches in the nave, most of which were restored in the 19th century. All other furnishings date from the 19th century, and the stained glass in the east window was created in 1874 by Clayton and Bell.