Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church located in Iwade, dating back to the 13th century, with 14th-century windows. The south aisle was added around 1504, and the church underwent restoration in 1874, with a south porch added in 1893. The building features a rubble structure with a plain tiled roof, while the tower, made of flint and rubble, has a shingle roof. The church comprises a nave and chancel, a south aisle, and a west tower.

The two-stage tower has a blocked west doorway, a single light above it, and belfry openings. The south aisle, constructed after 1504 thanks to a monetary bequest, includes diagonal buttresses, two offset buttresses, and two two-light Perpendicular windows. The south-east and east windows have been restored and are three-light Perpendicular in style. The chancel roof line steps down to meet the nave roof, indicating separate construction. The north wall of the nave and chancel has four offset buttresses, three 14th-century windows, and a plain chamfered north doorway.

The gabled south porch features a moulded outer doorway with a hood, and the inner doorway, dating to around 1504, has an overlapping plank and stud door with strapped ironwork and a ring handle entwined with two dragons. The door surround is roll moulded with a hollow chamfer and a basket arch topped with a quatrefoil.

Inside, the nave has a two-bay arcade leading to the south aisle, supported by octagonal piers and broad, double chamfered arches. There is a double chamfered doorway to the tower, and the roofs of both the nave and south aisle are supported by four crown posts. The internal floor level has been raised by approximately one foot. There is no chancel arch, but there is a single arched opening from the chancel to the south aisle, with the chancel roof featuring 19th-century crown posts.

Notable fittings include a water stoup by the south door, a piscina in the chancel, and a cusped piscina in the south aisle. The wooden screen in the south aisle has three bays with Perpendicular tracery and a door in the left bay, which is finely moulded with attached shafts for missing statues. There are brasses on a large stone slab in the south-west corner commemorating Symon Snelling, who died in 1467, and his wife Jokuosa (Joyce), with Symon depicted without his head. The south-east window features a crucifixion scene from around 1504, which was repaired in 1840. Additionally, there is a Royal Coat of Arms of George III displayed on the west wall.