Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church with probable origins in the 12th century, significantly altered in the 13th century (chancel and south arcade), 14th century (north porch), mid-15th century, 1633 (south chapel arcade), and with a late 19th-century restoration. The church is built of squared and coursed rubble with dressed stone to the north porch, flush rusticated dressed stone quoins, ashlar dressings, copings, and battlements, and has Welsh slate roofing to the nave and stone slate to the chancel.

The church comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, south aisle, and north porch. The nave has 15th-century three-light windows with flat heads and hoodmoulds, while the south aisle features similar windows alongside a 13th-century lancet to the left of the porch and a 2-light 13th-century window to the right. A clerestory to the nave has three-light 15th-century windows with pointed heads. Moulded cornices and embattled parapets define the nave and aisle. The chancel has a single 13th-century lancet on each side wall and a three-light 19th-century window in the east wall, with face stops. The three-stage tower incorporates elements from the 13th and 15th centuries. The first and second stages clasping west buttresses run up to a first-stage string course with an embattled parapet and gargoyles. The west face includes a round-arched doorway with a plank door and a lancet above. A clock is set internally in the second stage, and similar openings are found on other faces, except the east. The bell openings are two-cusped with slate louvres. A gabled south porch has a round-arched doorway, a plank door, and a sundial below the gable apex. The early 14th-century north porch has a cusped and sub-cusped ogee-headed doorway with two-leaf studded plank outer doors, an inner pointed-arched doorway with a two-leaf plank door, and a Virgin and Child statue in a niche above. Benches are situated on either side of the porch. A Sheila-na-Gig carving is set into the nave wall to the left of the porch.

The interior features a four-bay south arcade with circular abaci and double-chamfered arches. There is a segmental-arched tower doorway with a deep-revealed pointed arched light above. A 19th-century Early English style chancel arch gives access to a rood stair to the right. A one-bay 17th-century arcade within the chancel leads to a south chapel. The nave incorporates flat and coved plaster vaults, featuring face corbels that indicate a former timber roof. A 13th-century font sits at the north door; it consists of a circular pillar and bowl. Fragments of early 17th-century wall paintings remain on the nave walls, including two tablets commemorating William Goddard (1795) and William Butt (1777). The south aisle’s south wall features a series of early 15th-century murals depicting St Christopher, Christ of the Trades, and an obscured section. Other fixtures include a 15th-century roodscreen, fine 19th-century choir pews, possibly incorporating 15th-century carving, 15th-century stained glass to the north-east nave window, and late 19th-century glass to the chancel east window.