Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church with prebendal origins, dating from the 11th century and significantly altered in the 12th, 13th, and 15th centuries. It is constructed primarily of rendered flint, with tiled roofs and lead to the aisles. The church comprises a nave with aisles, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. Access is through the west tower, which features a tall, impressive arch with roll-moulded arrises on paired half-round imposts, adorned with carved capitals. Lower side doors have monolithic lintels and blind tympana, likely indicative of an early 11th-century porticus, the remains of whose walls are still visible. A west door may have been originally situated under a porch or small forebuilding. The nave was built in the 13th century, incorporating a corbel table and a lancet clerestory. Aisles have 15th-century three-light windows; the west walls represent the east walls of the demolished porticus, displaying herringbone masonry. The chancel is also from the 13th century, with simple side lancets and a three-light Geometric east window. The tower, of three stages with an offset upper stage, features alternate quoins and large herringbone flints. It has 11th to 12th century lights and a billet corbel table. Two inset western buttresses conceal previous evidence of a forebuilding. The 1626 parapet has lost its pinnacles.

Inside the tower, a high arch leads to the nave, featuring imposts with three attached shafts, leading through basic capitals to arrises and intrados rolls. The nave arcade, of 13th-century design, spans four bays with round columns, the eastern ones possessing four clustered shafts and trumpet capitals. The clerestory contains wide embrasures. The walls are plastered from the 19th century. A steep-pitched open roof with crown posts and arch braced collars is also a 19th-century addition, and a high door indicates the position of a former rood screen. The chancel arch is Romanesque, dating from the 19th century, and a timber roof covers the chancel. A trefoiled piscina and aumbrey are also present. The south aisle was extended eastward in the 19th century, incorporating a well-carved opening to the chancel and an external door. A north porch was demolished after 1809.

The font is 19th-century and octagonal. A pulpit, dating circa 1919, is highly carved with nodding ogees. Two wall monuments are located in the chancel: on the north side, a marble tablet with a shaped slate field and draped marble urn on a casket, commemorating Thomas Herne of Bloomsbury, who died in 1799. A panel was added for his niece, who died in 1909. On the south side, a similar tablet by T. King of Bath, features a marble panel with pilasters, a draped urn on a casket against a grey slate field, and is dedicated to Daniel Herne, who died in 1814. A simple brass commemorates John Samwell, who died in 1669, and two late 19th-century brasses are also present. 19th-century glass is found in the east and west aisle windows. Netheravon may have been a location of a pre-conquest religious house.