Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th and 15th centuries. It was restored in 1878. The church is constructed of stone with a plain tile roof to the chancel; the nave roof is not visible. It consists of a 15th-century west tower, a short nave, a south porch, and a small chancel.

The west tower has two stages built upon a low moulded plinth, with battlements above a moulded string. Integral buttresses are located at the north-west and south-west angles. The belfry features trefoil-headed, hollow-chamfered louvred lights on both sides. A smaller light, with a square head, hollow spandrels and hoodmould, is situated towards the base of the upper stage to the west. The west window contains two trefoil-headed lights with a renewed mullion, lacking a separating opening and any voussoirs or hoodmould. A corbel head is present at what would have been the apex. A moulded two-centred arched west doorway is adorned with a hoodmould.

The nave, dating to the 12th century, features a south elevation with no visible plinth and battlements without a string. Two buttresses are present. A 15th-century window above the porch has two cinquefoiled lights with a cavetto mullion and a square head. A 19th-century two-light window towards the east is pointed, with two trefoil-headed lights, trefoil and hoodmould. The south porch, reportedly dated 526, is constructed of stone with cement-rendered quoins, and features a round-arched cast-iron gate within an architrave. The inner 12th-century doorway exhibits fat roll, chevron, and billet moulding, with a stone face affixed to the apex. Square moulded abaci are present on single shafts either side, with scalloped cushion capitals and slightly moulded bases. A three-centred arched stone inner architrave fills the doorway.

The chancel, also from the 12th century, is constructed of galleted stone. It is gabled and features traces of a blocked south-west window with trefoiled head. It includes a 19th-century east window and a short, narrow 12th-century north window with a rounded head formed from a single stone. The nave's north elevation has a moulded plinth continuous with the tower's, battlements above a chamfered string, and a central 19th-century window.

Internally, the nave is aisle-less. There is no chancel arch. A 13th-century pointed tower arch has chamfered jambs and imposts. The chancel has a crown-post roof from 1878, subtly stencilled, while the nave has a shallow-pitched 19th-century king-post roof. Fittings include the Royal Arms of George III, unusually signed “J. Marten Tenterden Pinxt,” displayed on the south wall of the nave, and an oval text board. A bell, likely from the late 14th century and attributed to John Danyell of London, stands in the north-east corner of the nave. A reredos, carved in Oberammergau, dates from 1897-1900.