Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church with origins in the 12th century, significant additions from the 13th and 15th centuries, and a chancel rebuilt in 1855 by C.H. Gabriel. It is constructed of ashlar with stone slate roofs and coped gables. The church comprises a nave, a south porch, a north aisle, a west tower, a chancel, and a north vestry.

The 15th-century three-stage west tower features diagonal buttresses to the bottom stage, a moulded plinth, string courses, an embattled parapet, and corner pinnacles. A canted stair tower, embattled at the top, leads to the second stage. The tower has two-light pointed bell-openings. The west front displays a moulded four-centred doorway with a hoodmould, beneath a large Perpendicular three-light window with a hood. A small single light is situated above the doorway. Ashlar construction defines the nave, which has embattled parapets with some visible chalk rubble in the east wall. The south side exhibits stepped buttresses at each end, a moulded plinth and cornice, and large three-light Perpendicular windows flanking the porch and at the east end. A canted, embattled rood-stair tower is also present. The porch has a coped gable, a pointed arch, and a scratch dial. The north aisle is constructed of rubble stone with an ashlar, embattled parapet. A cornice with gargoyles runs along the north side, accompanied by a blocked door. Each side features a flat-headed Perpendicular three-light window. The chancel, dating to 1855, has two-light and single-light windows on its south side, a three-light east window with reticulated tracery, a single light on the north side, and a lean-to vestry.

Inside, the porch has a 15th-century rafter roof and a 19th-century neo-Norman south door visible from within, framed by a large round arch from a circa 1200 arcade with round piers and round caps; one pier is plain, the other with a scroll moulding. A 15th-century tower arch, a four-bay nave roof of the same period (low-pitched with moulded cambered tie-beams and tracery over), and a ceiled end bay with affixed stars are also present. An Early English north arcade of three bays, featuring round piers and pointed two-chamfer arches, stands alongside a lean-to north aisle roof. Leaf motifs are carved over each pier. The chancel arch is pointed with two chamfers and a hood with bead stops. The 1855 chancel features a scissor rafter roof, pattern decoration on the walls, an encaustic tile floor, a low stone screen, and an east window containing brightly colored glass depicting naive figures, monogrammed M.E. or E.M. South windows are decorated with crudely drawn figures from around 1855. A stone, canted-fronted pulpit from the 19th century is located in the nave, along with commandment boards affixed to metal. A plaque commemorating G. Hungerford of Studley, who died in 1764, is on the north aisle, and another for Sarah Vaisey, who died in 1795, is located beneath the tower. The church also contains an exceptional Norman font with a band of upright, stylized leaves below and a band of trail scrolls above.