Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church located in Goodnestone, dating back to the 12th century, with features from the 14th and 15th centuries. It was restored in 1871 by G.G. Scott. The church is constructed of flint, partly coursed and arranged in a herringbone pattern, and has a plain tiled roof along with a shingled tower and spirelet. It consists of a chancel, nave, western bell tower, and a north porch. The church features identical 15th-century two-light Perpendicular windows, along with ogee-headed windows, and the north wall of the chancel displays exposed blocked heads of 12th-century windows.

The north porch is half-timbered from the 19th century, with a doorway that has 19th or 20th-century attached shafts and a tympanum carved with a lamb and flag. The original 12th-century billet-moulded head has a zigzag drip mould, and the south doorway is roll and wave moulded from the same period. The chancel is stepped in from the nave, featuring an interior frame for a bell turret at the west end, with an arcaded base and ogee-braced trusses. The roof has four crown posts.

Inside, there is an ogee-headed piscina and a shelved aumbrey in the chancel. A large screen from 1871 has three ogee-headed bays. The pulpit, dating from the 17th century, is octagonal with a fluted pillar stem and fluted frieze on plain panel sides, supported by carved brackets. It has a tester with drops at the corners and a panelled backboard, along with a 19th or 20th-century handrail on turned balusters. The church also contains fragments of medieval glass in the window heads and a monument to George Mutter, who died in 1813, featuring a white pedimented wall tablet on a black background, signed by T. Milnes of London.