Church Of St Mary And All Saints

The Church of St Mary and All Saints is a parish church, largely dating to the 15th century. It is constructed of local rubble with granite dressings, and has steep dry slate roofs with coped gable ends. The plan includes a nave and chancel, north and south aisles, with a projection for the rood stair on the north side, a south porch, a 20th-century vestry to the right of the porch, and a west tower.

The exterior features diagonal corner buttresses and 15th-century windows with Perpendicular tracery or four-centred arched lights. Most windows are three-light, except for the five-light chancel east window. The south porch has a four-centred arched doorway with moulded rubble jambs. The embattled three-stage west tower has a parapet with small merlons over a corbel table, offset corner buttresses and string courses, three-light louvred windows to the upper stage, a clock face below, and a three-light traceried window above a pointed, nearly round-arched moulded doorway. A taller embattled stair turret is set into the northeast corner.

Inside, the walls are plastered. Four-bay granite aisle arcades feature four-centred arches, the south arcade resting on octagonal piers. The roof is scissor-braced, except for an arch-braced roof over the chancel. A rood stair is also present. The church contains a round Norman font of red sandstone with a palmette frieze, a chest constructed from 16th-century panels, formerly part of a font cover, and a late 19th-century reconstruction of a fine late medieval carved oak rood screen with four-light traceried openings, five bays in total, with a central doorway to each section. Traces of original paint remain. A fine 17th-century pulpit with a tester sounding board, featuring openwork obelisk and cresting, is also a feature.

Several monuments are located within the church. Two fine 17th-century freestone and marble monuments are found in the east end of the south aisle chapel, belonging to the Harris family of Radford. On the left is a Baroque aedicule monument with a segmental pediment and a kneeling figure in front of an oval panel containing an epitaph to John Harris (1677). The other monument holds a coat of arms over an enriched cornice, resting on three Ionic columns with a caryatid at the centre. Additionally, there is an 18th-century black and white marble monument to the Harris family, and a 19th-century monument to the Hare family of the Retreat. The chancel east window contains a fine Pre-Raphaelite Te Deum from around 1880, while clear glass with patterned leadwork from around 1900 is found in the south aisle.