Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th century and a 13th-century west tower around 1220. The chancel was rebuilt in the 1330s and a north aisle built around 1340. The church is constructed of limestone rubble with dressings, and ironstone to the parapets, all covered by lead roofs.

The east end of the chancel features a Decorated window of four trefoiled lights with tracery, with two side windows of two trefoiled ogee lights each. The nave has three clerestory windows of two trefoiled lights under a square head. A south aisle has a two-light geometric Decorated window and several 13th-century windows of two and three lights; the gabled south porch is likely a largely 19th-century rebuilding. The north aisle features a 14th-century three-light east window with intersecting tracery, along with two Y-tracery windows. The three-stage west tower has lancets to the ground stage, a lancet to the west wall of the second stage, and a belfry with two lancets enclosed by a semi-circular outer order. An octagonal central shaft with square capitals rises through the tower. A 15th-century window is set into the east side of the church.

Inside the chancel, there are three sedilia with trefoiled ogee heads and spandrels with shallow tracery. A piscina sits beside the sedilia with double trefoiled ogee recesses and chamfered mullions, quatrefoil basins. A 17th-century black and white marble chancel pavement features an inscription dedicated to the Andrewes family of Lathbury Park. The chancel arch, dating to around 1330, has two chamfered orders, moulded capitals, and semi-octagonal shafts to the inner order. The south arcade of the nave, dating to around 1190, has two bays with a one chamfered order. A circular pier displays a square capital carved with dragons and a moulded abacus, while square responds have leaf ornament capitals. A rood loft stair opening is visible in the southeast corner. The north arcade of the nave, dating to 1340, has two bays with two chamfered orders and an octagonal pier, and semi-octagonal responds with moulded bell capitals. A semi-circular tower arch is present. The modern nave roof incorporates eight stone angel corbels from the 15th century, while the north aisle retains its 14th-century roof. Wall paintings dating to the 15th century are visible on the nave’s east wall (a “Room”), north wall (the Virgin weighing souls), and south wall (the 7 sacraments, amongst other fragments), with additional texts dating to the 17th century. Two 17th-century brasses and fragments of medieval stained glass are also present. Monuments include one on the chancel north wall to Alice Pigott (1604), featuring an incised marble figure of a woman and child; a 13th-century coffin lid with an incised cross; and a monument in the north aisle to Henry Uthwatt of Great Linford (1757) and his wife, featuring flanking Doric pilasters, an entablature with a triglyph frieze, a central urn, carved brackets, and a cartouche with arms surrounded by palms; the monument is signed "Palmer fecit".