Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church located on Wells Road in Corston. It dates back to the 12th century, with alterations made in the 13th, 15th, and 16th centuries, and a full restoration completed between 1864 and 1865 by B. Ferrey. The church comprises a west tower, nave, north aisle with a porch, and chancel. It is constructed of coursed and snecked rubble with freestone dressings, topped with a plain tiled roof featuring coped raised verges and cross finials.

The low west tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses with off-sets, a plain embattled parapet with pinnacles, and a set-back octagonal ashlar spire. The bell chamber has single-light lancet openings, and the west window on the second stage, dated 1622, features two lights in ovolo moulded surrounds with 4-centred heads, under an arched hood mould with square stops. The first stage has a restored three-light window under a relieving arch, and there is a 17th-century studded plank door beneath a cambered head. A square stair tower is located at the north-east.

The north aisle includes two 19th-century geometric style two-light windows and buttresses with off-sets. The porch features an outer doorway in Early English style with one order of columns that have foliate capitals, while the inner doorway is round-headed with a roll moulding. The chancel has three cusped lancet windows on the north side in double hollow chamfered surrounds, along with a priests' door in a similar surround. The south side also has cusped lancet windows, but these are in single hollow chamfered surrounds. All windows have deep embrasures and rere-arches, with a 19th-century three-light stepped lancet window on the east.

Inside, the nave features one window similar to that of the chancel and two 19th-century three-light cusped windows. The south porch projects with a gabled design. The interior includes a three-bay arcade from 1865, with a font and pulpit dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Above the north door, there is a royal arms dated 1660. The chancel contains two Harington monuments: one for Benjamin, who died in 1711, and another for Mary, who died in 1732. Both are baroque marble tablets adorned with pilasters, a winged skull and arms for Benjamin, and a gadrooned base for the pilasters and arms for Mary.