Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building located on Lydalls Road in Didcot. It dates back to the 12th century, with the chancel being rebuilt and the south aisle added around 1340. There were alterations made in the 15th century, and in the 19th century, a north aisle, vestry, south porch, and steeple were added. The church is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble with stone dressings. The nave and south aisle have a lead roof, the north aisle has a slate roof, the chancel features an old plain-tile roof, and the tower is covered with shingle hanging and roofing.

The church has an aisled three-bay nave, a chancel, and a west tower. The 19th-century open timber-framed porch sits on a stone base and has a gabled old plain-tile roof over the center of the south aisle. There is a double plank door leading to a two-centre arched doorway. To the right, there is a three-light window with reticulated tracery and a segmental head, while a paired lancet window to the left has couchettes with a segmental head. The south aisle features another three-light window with reticulated tracery on its right return. The chancel has a trefoil-topped doorway with a two-centre arched hood with foliate ends at its center, a two-light plate tracery window to the left, and two-light windows with reticulated tracery to the right and rear. The east end has a three-light window with reticulated tracery, and the west end has a three-light window with rectilinear tracery. The north aisle has 19th-century windows with reticulated tracery. The tower, which has a broach spire, rises from the south aisle roof and features reset headstones on its walls.

Inside, the church has 19th and 20th-century roofs and fittings, including a stone reredos, altar rail, and choir stalls in the chancel. The chancel arch is two-centred with a hood-mould. The south arcade from the 15th century consists of two-centred arches on cluster and octagonal columns, while the 19th-century north arcade features two-centred arches on cluster columns. There is a Tudor-arched doorway to the left of the chancel arch leading to stairs to the rood loft, with a paired trefoiled lancet opening above the stairs. The church also contains a Romanesque round stone font on an octagonal stepped base and a Purbeck marble effigy of a mitred abbot, dating from around 1290, located in the south aisle, which has remains of a trefoil canopy above the head and an animal at the feet.