Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church with significant fabric from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. It was restored in 1871 to the chancel and underwent a complete restoration in 1879 by T.H. Wyatt. The church is constructed of limestone rubble with a tiled roof. It is cruciform in layout, incorporating a crossing tower and a south porch.

The gabled south porch features a double-chamfered pointed doorway and has saddleback coping to the verge, topped with a cross finial. The nave has no windows on its south side. The south transept has a 19th-century two-light Perpendicular-style window to the south, as well as a coped verge with a block sundial and a stone tablet on the east wall commemorating William Baker, who died in 1799, framed by a reeded surround and paterae. The south side of the chancel has a pointed priest's door with a hoodmould, a 19th-century two-light square-headed window to the left, and two cusped lancets to the right. The east end features a group of three stepped 13th-century lancets under a continuous hoodmould, with a coped verge and cross finial. The 19th-century north vestry has a two-light Y-tracery east window, a pointed north doorway, an ashlar stack with offsets, and a pitched roof. The north transept contains a 13th-century two-light window to the north and a pair of 19th-century lancets to the west. A blocked, chamfered doorway is present on the north side of the nave. The west end has a 14th-century three-light window with a coped verge.

The two-stage square crossing tower has an offset bellstage. The east and north sides feature double-chamfered louvred lancets, with a planked door to the south side and a Tudor-arched diamond-leaded window to the south side. The tower has corbelled eaves supporting a pyramidal lead roof.

Inside, the church has a 14th-century pointed, moulded inner doorway with a hoodmould terminating in king and queen’s heads, leading to a 19th-century door. The nave contains a 19th-century three-bay crown post roof and a tiled floor. The crossing retains fine 13th-century features, including triple-chamfered arches resting on moulded corbels, some of which have stiff-leaf or foliated capitals. Remains of a former rib-vaulted ceiling spring from moulded corbels. The south transept incorporates an ogee-headed aumbry and a cavetto-moulded niche on the east wall. Both transepts have collar-rafter roofs. The chancel has a scissor rafter roof, a polychrome tiled floor, and a pointed chamfered doorway to the vestry; the east window has a cavetto-moulded rere-arch. Notable fittings include good-quality glass in the east window, dating from the 1890s, two 17th-century box pews with doors, 19th-century pews and choir stalls, an octagonal arcaded wooden pulpit on a stone plinth, and an unusual 12th-century stone font bowl on a short cylindrical base. Two 19th-century iron and brass candelabras are also present. The father of Christopher Wren was rector of the parish from 1620 to 1628.