Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church primarily dating from the 15th and early 16th centuries, with restorations in 1843 and 1884. It is constructed of random and coursed rubble with gabled slate roofs and cruciform finials. The plan comprises a nave, chancel, north aisle, south porch, south vestry, west tower, and south transept. The architecture is of the Perpendicular style.

The tower is three-stage with a crenellated parapet, corner pinnacles, small square bell-chamber openings, a 3-light Perpendicular west window (renewed after 1826), and a Perpendicular west doorway. The nave has four bays, and the chancel has three bays to the south. South-facing windows are of 2 and 3 lights, with tracery renewed after 1826, the south-west window of the chancel being renewed in 1843. A 3-light Perpendicular style south aisle window of 1905 contains glass by Compter. The east window to the chancel dates from 1884 and features glass by Kempe. The vestry incorporates a pair of reset 14th-century lancet windows. Five 2-light windows face north, with tracery also renewed after 1826. The porch was rebuilt in 1843 and features a simple Norman outer door opening with chevron ornament; inside, it has a benched floor of flatstone and a Perpendicular inner doorway with a ribbed door and an arch-braced roof with carved bosses.

Inside, the walls are plastered and the floors are laid with polychromatic tile pavements. A continuous nave and chancel are covered by an unceiled wagon roof. The north aisle and transept also have unceiled wagon roofs, all dating from the 15th century. A four-bay north aisle arcade features depressed 4-centred arch heads, piers with four hollows, and simple facetted capitals. The tower arch is a plain semi-circular head, and a chamfered semi-circular head doorway leads to the tower stair. A square Norman font with broached corners sits on a drum base. A detached font bowl, possibly from the 13th century, is located in the north-west corner and has tub-shaped ribs at the corners. The nave and aisle retain a full set of 17th-century benches, with some later restoration. A pulpit, dated 1634 and a gift from William Cary of Clovelly Court, is present, along with a small Jacobean altar gable in the aisle with a richly carved back. The church contains rich High Victorian Gothic fittings, including a recess with possible earlier carved work, altar rails, choir stalls, a lectern dated 1883, an organ by Vowles of 1889, a renewed base to the pulpit (1900), and oil lamps. Numerous memorials are present, including 17th-century wall memorials with Classical columns and achievements to the Cary family, late 18th and early 19th-century monuments to the Hamlyn family, and various floor slabs. Fragments of possibly early glass are found in the north chancel window. Four bells are housed within the tower, one dated 1708 and another dated 1759.