Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church dating from 1832, built on the site of an earlier Medieval church. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof featuring coped verges. The church has a simple, unified design with nave and chancel under a single roof, a west entrance, and a small bellcote. A gabled west porch has a pointed doorway and a 15th-century style window on its sides, with a rendered gable incorporating shaped bargeboards. The west end is of plain ashlar, with a slightly projecting bell tower topped by an offset square bell turret with a pointed louvre, a hipped lead roof, and a ball finial; the tower has buttresses with offsets at the corners. The south side features three bays of pointed, 15th-century style windows with buttresses between. There is no east window, but instead a carved cross with a quatrefoil above, along with a reset memorial tablet with consoles and a broken pediment commemorating Margaret Sympson, who died in 1685. The north side has only buttresses, and a reset memorial tablet with a semi-circular top to John Barron, who died in 1685.

Inside, the single-space interior is divided by an open, traceried chancel screen, with two steps leading up to the chancel itself. The roof is of rib-panelled wood. The chancel includes a piscina set in the south-west window sill, with a carved wooden pieta above it, potentially dating from before the Reformation. A painted Crucifixion on a panelled reredos is a copy of a work by Perugino, and was executed by Miss Ella Jacob of Salisbury. The nave and chancel are furnished with 19th-century pieces, some in the chancel that are marked with the initials “AM,” and were given by Alfred Morrison of Fonthill. A plain 12th-century stone font bowl is also present. Monuments include a brass set in stone commemorating Richard Randall, who died in 1745, and a classical marble monument by Reeves to Ellen Frowde, who died in 1830. The church’s architecture is described in Nikolaus Pevsner’s “The Buildings of England, Wiltshire” (1975) and the “Survey of Countryside Treasures” (1969).