Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church that dates back to the 12th century, with a tower built in 1578, alterations from the 17th century, an 18th-century porch, a north aisle added in 1890, an extended chancel from 1894, a vestry constructed in 1903, and restorations carried out in 1908 and 1968. The church features flint and roughcast walls topped with a tile roof. Originally, it had an aisleless nave and chancel, but a north aisle was added in the late 12th century. In the 17th century, the arcade was removed, and the nave was widened to include the aisle, which also led to the chancel being widened on its north side. Two bays of the nave arcade were reused to create a double chancel arch, supported by two octagonal timber posts. The current north aisle was added in 1890, featuring a new arcade of three bays, and the chancel was extended as a sanctuary in 1894. The exterior has roughcast walls with stone dressings, three early 17th-century windows, Victorian coupled lancets, and Victorian/Decorated windows on the east and south sides of the sanctuary. The north aisle includes two small triple lights and a blocked Norman doorway that has been reset. The tower, likely replacing an earlier structure, is plain with stepped buttresses, flint walls up to the bell-stage, which is cement rendered, and a plain parapet with crocketted corner pinnacles. The brick porch features a round arch with a key. Inside, the church is predominantly Victorian, except for the nave, which has two slightly pointed chancel arches resting on drum columns. These posts support tie beams, above which are three slender Tuscan columns that hold up the ceiling. There is a Norman piscina pillar located in the sanctuary and a stone font shaped like a chalice, inscribed with "Richard Greene of Winterbourne Stoke gave this 1629," along with floor slabs dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.