Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church with a foundation dating to the 13th century. It was largely remodelled around 1450 with the addition of a west tower and restored in 1859, with further work to the tower in 1948. The church is constructed of finely jointed squared and coursed dressed stone, with some coursed rubble to the clerestory, and has ashlar dressings, stone copings, a stone tile roof to the chancel, and lead roofs elsewhere. It comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, and a south porch.

The north and south aisles have 5-light Perpendicular windows with panelled, chevron cusped tracery and hoodmoulds. The clerestory has similar 3-light windows. The chancel has 3-light Perpendicular windows to the north and south walls, and a renewed 5-light 13th-century east window with Decorated tracery. Buttresses with set-offs are present, along with gargoyles and crocketted pinnacles to the aisles, and trefoil pierced triangular parapets to the aisles and nave. A finely detailed angelus bell turret rises from the nave-chancel gable apex. The chancel has two statue niches to the angle buttresses.

The tall 4-stage west tower has set-back buttresses that develop into crocketted pinnacles at the top stage, moulded string courses, and a trefoil pierced triangular parapet with gargoyles and corner pinnacles. The west facade features a Tudor-arched doorway with panelled reveals and heraldic shields to the spandrels, leading to a 2-leaf plank and batten door. Above the doorway is a 5-light window. The second stage to the north and south has blind 2-light openings with hoodmoulds and lozenge stops. Bell openings have close piercing.

The south porch has set-back buttresses, a quatrefoil pierced parapet, and a south-east corner stair turret. It features a hollow-moulded outer doorway and a similarly moulded inner door with a 2-leaf plank door, a hoodmould, and a statue niche with a headless statue above the door. Stone busts of John Locke and Hannah More are situated either side of the porch door. Face corbels mark the former parvise above.

The interior has 4-bay nave arcades with clustered shafts and vestigial floral and figure capitals. The roof is a compartmented tie beam construction with carved bosses and angel corbels. The tower arch has panelled reveals, and a fine fan vault extends below the bell stage. Tie beam roofs are also present in the aisles, and a 19th-century barrel vault covers the chancel. A Perpendicular octagonal font with angel panels is located in the nave, alongside a partly renewed 16th-century rood screen, a 19th-century Perpendicular style pulpit, and a stone effigy of a priest from around 1340 in the south aisle. A wall monument to Hannah More from 1833 is situated above the south door. The chancel contains a 1832 Gothic reredos by Charles Barry. Late 19th-century stained glass is found in the aisles, the east window, and the tower west window.