Parish Church Of All Saints

The parish church of All Saints is a building of significant historical and architectural interest, dating back to the 12th century, with substantial additions and alterations made over subsequent centuries. The core of the church is the nave, originally built in the 12th century with walls of local rubble and freestone dressings. A south aisle, north porch, and west tower were added in the 14th century, with the top stage of the tower constructed in the 15th century. The chancel and the south vestry were rebuilt in 1863, and the tower was subsequently restored in 1905-6. The church has clay-tile roofs covering the nave and chancel.

The nave features a 14th-century buttress marking the junction with the chancel. An eastern window of the same period has two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in a 2-centred head and a decorative label. A 16th-century window in the middle of the north wall has three three-centred lights in a square head. The west window is also from the 14th century, with a trefoil in the head. The north doorway has a square-headed inner arch and a plain semi-circular outer order with a moulded label. It features jamb-shafts with moulded bases and volute capitals, and a plain tympanum. The C14 north porch has a two-centred outer archway of two orders. The west tower, of two stages, is topped with a plain parapet, gargoyles, and a turret. The west window of the tower has three trefoiled ogee lights with reticulated tracery in a two-centred head and a label. The bell-chamber contains early 15th-century windows with two trefoiled lights and a trefoil in a 2-centred head, also with a label.

The south aisle, also from the 14th century, has an early 16th-century east window comprised of four triangular-headed lights in a square head. The south wall has two partly restored 14th-century windows with two lights and square heads. A later alteration to the south doorway replaced the original arch with a four-centred arch. The west wall has an early 14th-century window with two pointed lights in a pointed head. The chancel has a polygonal east end; its north wall features two 2-light trefoiled lancets with quatrefoils in the heads and a keeled label with head-stops. The windows around the apse also have trefoils and spherical triangles in their heads. A polygonal south vestry is attached to the south wall of the chancel.

Inside, the nave roof is a late 15th-century segmental barrel form with moulded ribs that create five bays, each divided into four panels. The intersections have foliated bosses, and the moulded plates feature carved paterae. The south aisle has a pent-roof with compartmented moulded beams, beneath which are seven 14th-century head-corbels. The chancel windows have Purbeck nook-shafts with foliage capitals and abaci, cusped rere-arches, and roll and ball flower ornament. There is a 19th-century piscina and a carved credence shelf. Other features include a 12th-century font with a tapering cylindrical bowl and a band of cable ornament, two 14th-century piscinae, recesses for tombs in the south aisle (two with moulded jambs, cinquefoiled 4-centred arches, and defaced labels), 17th and 18th century monuments and floor-slabs, and 17th-century pews with moulded styles and tops.