Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church located in Garsdon, with its tower dating back to the early 15th century and the remainder of the building constructed in 1856 by Coe & Goodwin. The church is built from squared and coursed rubble with stone dressings, featuring ashlar buttresses and copings, and has Welsh slate roofs. It comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, and south porch.

The two-stage tower has diagonal buttresses with set-offs at the first stage string course, a stair turret at the north-east corner, and a pierced trefoil parapet with gargoyles below. The west face of the tower features a 3-light 15th-century window under a pointed head, adorned with beast stops on the hoodmould, including a pig to the left, and a single opening above. The bell openings on all faces are designed with two trefoil-cusped lights and pierced louvres.

The nave consists of four bays with 3-light windows in the 15th-century style under pointed heads, separated by buttresses. The chancel has two bays with similar windows and a 3-light east window that includes face stops on the hoodmould. The gabled south porch has a pointed-arched entrance and an inner two-leaf plank door.

Inside, the church features open rafter roofs in both the nave and chancel, along with a two-bay north arcade leading to the vestry. Notable fittings include a 19th-century Perpendicular style wooden pulpit and an octagonal stone font. There is also a wall monument to Sir Laurence Washington from 1643 on the north wall of the chancel, which includes an oval inscription panel surrounded by a wreath and barleysugar columns supporting an open segmental pediment with two allegorical figures.