Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church largely dating to the late 13th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th and 15th centuries. Further restoration work took place in 1847 and 1920. The church is constructed of dressed limestone with a Welsh slate roof and follows a cruciform plan without aisles, featuring a south porch.

The two-story porch, dating to the 15th century, has a moulded pointed doorway, a two-light Perpendicular window above it, and an image niche. It is adorned with a frieze of rosettes and gargoyles, culminating in a battlemented parapet with diagonal buttresses. The nave has two pointed three-light Perpendicular windows on its right side and one on the left, also with a battlemented parapet. A stair turret is situated in the angle between the nave and transept. The south transept is characterized by a large five-light pointed Perpendicular window with a hoodmould and diagonal buttresses, topped with a plain parapet. The east side has a three-light square-headed window with a hoodmould. The chancel includes a pointed priest's door on the south side, three cusped lancets on the north and south, and a 19th-century three-light pointed window at the east end. A lean-to vestry adjoins the north side, featuring a lancet window. The north transept, dating back to the 13th century, has two lancets to the east and a three-light window with geometric tracery, attached shafts, and angle buttresses. The north side of the nave contains four three-light Perpendicular windows, buttresses, a blocked Tudor-arched doorway, and a battlemented parapet. The west front has a chamfered pointed doorway with attached shafts, and a five-light Perpendicular window above. The three-stage tower has string courses and a square clockface on the south side, with a cusped lancet window. The bellstage has two-light square-headed cusped windows with louvres and hoodmoulds, a moulded string course with gargoyles, and a battlemented parapet.

Inside, the porch has a roof constructed in the 1920s, with stone benches and a molded pointed 14th-century doorway accompanied by an ogee crocketed stoup to the left. The nave features a 15th-century four-bay king-post roof supported by fine stone angel-brackets. A blocked doorway on the south wall indicates a previous upper room in the porch. The crossing, dating to the 14th century, features hollow and cyma-moulded arches and a tierceron vault with a hatch for bell ropes, all supported by carved corbels. The south transept has a restored two-bay king-post roof. The north transept showcases a good trefoiled piscina and aumbry on the east wall, with an original arch-braced collar rafter roof. The chancel, also from the late 13th century, features a restored arch-braced collar truss roof, two-seat sedilia with cusped pointed heads, and a moulded string course extending over the south door, with rere-arches to the lancets. A collection of 17th-century box pews are found in the crossing and at the west end, along with a 17th-century reading desk and an octagonal pulpit with barleysugar balusters. A 15th-century octagonal stone font, complete with a 19th-century cover, is also present. A fragment of a Saxon cross shaft is embedded in the south wall of the nave. Stained glass from the 1880s, dedicated to Rev. Moore, decorates the chancel. Evidence suggests that the church may have originally had aisles, possibly in the 13th century.