Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a building of group value, dating from the Romanesque period with later alterations throughout the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. It comprises a Romanesque west tower and nave, a 13th-century chancel, 14th-century north and south aisles and clerestory, and a 15th-century south porch. The church is constructed from coursed stone rubble to the south aisle, and uncoursed stone rubble to the clerestory, chancel, and tower. The south porch is made of brick. The chancel and west tower have old plain-tile roofs, while the roofs of the clerestory, nave, aisles, and tower are not visible.

The south porch, a two-storey structure, is located to the left of the centre of the south aisle and contains a 4-centred stone archway with quatrefoil spandrels and a studded plank door. An inner 2-centre arched doorway has wood tracery. Stone mullion windows with cusped lights and hood moulds are on the returns of the porch, as well as on the first floor. The south aisle incorporates 3-light, rectilinear tracery windows, and a 2-light geometrical tracery window.

The clerestory features five 2-light stone mullion windows with cusped lights. The chancel has a 4-centred stone arched doorway with a plank door, a 3-light Perpendicular tracery window to the left, and a 2-light reticulated tracery window to the right. The east end of the chancel is distinguished by a 4-light intersecting tracery window, whilst the north side of the chancel presents three lancets and a 3-light Perpendicular tracery window. The north aisle has three 3-light rectilinear tracery windows, a lancet, and a 2-light geometrical tracery window. A 20th-century two-light reticulated tracery window appears on the left side of the clerestory, alongside Y-tracery windows and a central 2-light Reticulated tracery window.

The west tower has four stages. A 19th-century Romanesque doorway is on the west side of the tower, as are Romanesque lancets to the north and south faces of the second stage. A round-arched Romanesque window with dog-tooth moulding is on the west face’s second stage. The third stage is adorned with two-light plate-tracery windows to each side. A corbel sits on the string-course between the third and fourth stages, and the fourth stage’s faces each contain two-light Y-tracery louvred openings.

Inside, the chancel features an arch-braced collar truss roof, while the clerestory has a Perpendicular roof. Lean-to roofs are present in the aisles. A late 13th-century tomb recess in the chancel contains a re-cut effigy of a priest.