Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church with origins dating back to the 12th century. It was altered and enlarged in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, and restored in 1872 by T.H. Wyatt, who remodelled the south aisle and added an organ chamber. The walls are mainly rubble stone and flint. The nave roof is slated, while the aisles and chancel are stone slated with some coped gables.

The church comprises a nave, a three-bay north aisle, a three-bay south aisle, a chancel with an organ chamber to the north, a west tower, a porch, and a vestry west of the north aisle. The west tower is constructed of rubble stone and has two stages, a moulded plinth, and a battlemented parapet. Moulded string courses are present at the base of the parapet and below the belfry. The belfry windows are blocked in brick and originally contained two lights with Perpendicular tracery. A two-light window with Perpendicular tracery is in the south wall of the nave, west of the aisle.

The south aisle, altered in 1872, features a reset 12th-century doorway in the west wall, with a segmental arch and chevron ornament. It also has three paired lancets with traceried heads in the south wall, and a two-light window with geometrical tracery in the east wall. In the south wall of the chancel is a two-light square-headed window with cinquefoil lights, and the east window is of three lights with curvilinear tracery. The organ chamber’s east window is a two-light square-headed design with cinquefoil lights. The north wall of the organ chamber has two single-light square-headed windows and a moulded arched doorway.

Remains of a blocked doorway and two three-light square-headed windows—one with reticulated tracery and one with plain arched lights—are visible in the north aisle wall. The C18 porch, of brick and stone banding with a tiled roof, has a round arched doorway; the inner doorway is 12th-century with a pointed segmental arch and a C18 oak door. The C19 vestry, adjacent to the porch, is similarly constructed of brick and stone banding with a tiled roof.

Internally, the walls are plastered. The chancel has a shallow segmental plaster ceiling. A good 18th-century monument is on the south wall, and the choir stalls are composed of 17th-century oak panelling. A 17th-century oak pulpit is also present. The nave roof has arch braced collar-beam form. The north arcade, dating to the 16th century, has arches with panelled soffits. A large Gothic Revival monument from 1886 to Sir John Mitchell stands in the north aisle, with some 17th-century panelling below. The south arcade, dating to 1872, has circular columns with moulded caps. The south aisle roof is of arch braced collar beam and king-post form. A simple 13th-century circular font is also present.