Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church largely dating to the 12th century, with a south aisle partly from the 14th century and a significant restoration in 1870 by William Butterfield. Constructed from irregular limestone and flint chequers, the church has a tiled roof and a shingled tower. The plan incorporates a nave, north and south aisles, a chancel, a north porch and organ chamber, a west tower, and a 20th-century southeast vestry.

The gabled north porch features a pointed doorway with a continuous string course, carried over as a pointed hoodmould, topped with a quatrefoil and a coped verge. The north aisle has three 19th-century square-headed windows: two with three cusped lights and one with two cusped lights, with buttresses between and a diagonal buttress to the corner, under a catslide roof. The east window of the aisle is a 3-light 19th-century geometric design with a hoodmould. The chancel has two square-headed windows with two cusped lights, evidence of a blocked arch in a rubble wall, and an early 16th-century pointed east window of three lights. The south side features a square-headed two-light window, a round-arched priest’s door, and an ogee-headed lancet, now incorporated into the 1969 vestry designed by A. Stocken. The south aisle contains a 19th-century three-light geometric window to the east, and two and three-light windows mirroring those on the north. A fine external lateral stack with coped offsets and a cylindrical stack with attached shafts is located on the south side. The west end has a 14th-century pointed moulded doorcase with double doors by Butterfield, a 14th-century three-light window with a hoodmould featuring carved head terminals, and two-light geometric windows to the aisles. The oak-shingled belfry has timber cusped openings with louvres and a steep pyramidal shingled roof.

Inside, the porch has an arch-braced collar roof and a pointed moulded inner doorway with double doors featuring ornamental Butterfield hinges. The nave has a three-bay scissor-rafter roof with braced tie beams, with open wooden stairs to the belfry at the west end. There are four-bay arcades; the north arcade has plain pointed arches on cylindrical columns with moulded capitals, while the south arcade has two plain pointed arches on cylindrical columns with multi-scalloped capitals to the east. The western bays have double-chamfered arches with an octagonal column and respond. The aisles are entirely rebuilt, featuring polychrome segmental arches over windows and plastered walls with bands of limestone. The irregular 13th-century pointed polychrome chancel arch sits on restored half-shafts. The chancel has an exposed wagon roof and a polychrome tiled floor. Original features include low pews, an octagonal stone font with marble shafts, and a pulpit by Butterfield. The east window contains glass by Baillie and Mayer from 1854, with good glass from the 1880s to the north and south of the chancel. A window by Gibbs from 1871 is in the south aisle’s east window. Several 17th-century wall tablets are in the chancel, including memorials to Edward St. Barbe (died 1621), Mary Hungerford (died 1692), and Giles Eyre of Brickworth House (died 1655). 19th-century classical marble tablets are in the aisles, some signed, such as one to John Wane (died 1834) by Osmond of Sarum.