Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church, now redundant, with its main fabric dating back to the Saxon period. It was significantly altered in the late 12th century, with 14th and 15th century window openings. A restoration and reseating occurred in 1845. The church is constructed of flint and rubble stone, some repaired with red brick, and has a plain tiled roof. The tower is weather boarded and topped with a shingled spire. It comprises a chancel, nave, aisles, a western tower, and a south porch.

The substantial west tower features two massive offset brick buttresses enclosing a boarded door and porch. It contains a 15th century two-light window and a roundel above. The south aisle has a brick parapet, three two-light ogee-headed 14th century windows, and a gabled porch with a hollow-chamfered doorway and strap-hinged door which projects from the doorway itself. Corner buttresses are present. The chancel has a 19th century rebuilt east wall and a Decorated style east window. There are two lancet windows to the south and one to the north, with offset diagonal buttresses. The lower half of the north aisle remains, with brick buttresses and two hipped dormers.

The interior features three western bays of the nave with timber-framed trusses. The north arcade contains two simple chamfered arches resting on plain abaci. The south arcade features four chamfered arches supported by two octagonal piers and one round pier, with crockets, upright leaves, oak leaf enrichment, spurred and moulded bases characteristic of late 12th century work at Christ Church, Canterbury. A blocked double-splayed pre-Conquest window is high on the north wall. The roof has three crown posts, one renewed in the 20th century. A lean-to north aisle and a cross-beamed south aisle roof are also present. The chamfered chancel arch is supported by square responds with attached nook shafts.

Fittings include dado panelling with an elliptically headed piscina and choir stalls (six to the north, six to the south), all dating to the 17th century. A base of a four-panel road screen with a brattished rail is visible to the right. The octagonal pulpit, also from the 17th century, has two panels on each face, guilloche decoration on the arrises, and double hinged doors. Box pews with beaded panels, and four 17th and 19th century painted inscription boards are in the nave. Rear pews incorporate and reproduce the ogee headed tracery of the original road screen. A brass memorial to Thomas Mareys, who died in 1472, depicts a two-foot high figure of a priest with a single, mutilated shield. Fragments of 15th century glass are present in the chancel south window. The church became redundant in 1979.