Church Of All Hallows

The Church of All Hallows is a parish church largely dating to the 15th and early 16th centuries, incorporating some 13th-century fabric. It was restored in 1867-8. The church is constructed of local stone rubble with dressed granite quoins, with granite ashlar to the front of the porch. It has a gable ended slate roof. The plan consists of a nave, chancel, a south aisle and porch, and a west tower.

The chancel retains some 13th-century elements, the nave is probably of the 15th century, and the south aisle and porch are circa early 16th century. The tower is of three stages with crocketted pinnacles and two-light belfry openings with four-centred heads. A granite, moulded doorway with a four-centred head sits within the west face of the tower, alongside a three-light Perpendicular window which has been partly repaired. The north side of the nave contains a single, 19th-century replacement window in Perpendicular style. The chancel is continuous with a 13th-century Y-tracery two-light window, and the east window is a 19th- or 20th-century restoration in Decorated style. The south aisle's east end is set back from the chancel, with a matching three-light Perpendicular window. The south side of the aisle has three tall, early 16th-century mullion windows with four-centred heads and square hoodmoulds; the mullions have been partly renewed. A small priest’s door with a segmental granite head is situated below the right-hand window. The single-storey south porch has a four-centred granite doorway with roll hollow and roll moulding and chamfered imposts, and is topped by an 18th-century slate sundial.

Inside, the porch’s wagon roof features moulded ribs, decorative foliage, and flower bosses. The granite south doorway has a four-centred head with roll and hollow moulding, prominent stops, and a heavy plank door with a wooden lock case dated 1694 inscribed “Robert Wollan”. A four-bay granite arcade with chamfered four-centred arches and Pevsner A-type piers divides the nave and aisle; there is no chancel arch. The octagonal font, of 15th or 16th century granite, has a moulded base and sits on a heavy square base. The church contains several good early 18th-century wall memorials, including one to the Webber family (died 1707-1754) with a broken pediment and reeded pilasters. Another elaborate memorial is to Anne Hetherch (1711), featuring a broken segmental pediment, stiff-leafed foliage capitals, and ornamentation at the sides and below. A plaque of 1724 to Jane Chapman, displaying a coat of arms, is also located on the south aisle wall. Fragments of old glass, dated 1523, are preserved in the north window of the chancel. The nave carries a simple collar-rafter roof of the late 15th or 16th century, while the aisle roof is more elaborate, with moulded ribs, bosses depicting various designs, running foliage wall-plates and bosses with human faces.