Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church dating from 1265. The spire is from the 14th century, the south porch from the 15th century, and the clerestory, aisles, transepts and chancel were restored in 1863. The structure is built of rubble stone, with some coursed stone to the chancel and north transept, and has a stone slate roof with coped verges and cross finials.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a clerestory, aisles and transepts, a south porch, and a chancel with a vestry to the north. The three-stage west tower has flat angle buttresses, string courses, an embattled parapet, and an octagonal spire with moulded divisions and a carved section, topped with a weathercock. The lower sections of the tower have single lancet windows, while the upper stage has a four-bay Early English arcade on each face; the outer two arches are blind, with decorative louvres in the inner two. The clerestory features three two-light Perpendicular style windows with cusped lights. The south aisle has two-light plate tracery. The south porch has coped diagonal buttresses with cusped niches above a three-centred arched entrance with carved spandrels; a small crocketed ogee niche sits inside on the west wall. A triple lancet window is present in the south transept, with a reset consecration cross below. The chancel has a stepped triple lancet window to the east end, with Purbeck column shafts inside and a small three-light Decorated window on the south side, accompanied by an 18th-century wall tablet depicting cherub heads, fluted pilasters and a skull on the apron. The north aisle has three single lancet windows.

Inside, the nave roof has four bays with arch-braced collar beams supported on tie beams with brace and strut to corbel. The four-bay Transitional north arcade has cylindrical piers with stiff leaf capitals, and the soffits retain restored 13th-century red cinquefoil flower paintings. One similar pier and some painting are visible on the south arcade. Cinquefoiled rere-arches are found above the transept windows, and a piscina, credence shelf and squint are located in the south transept. Fine late 19th-century wooden fittings include a pulpit, reredos, rood screen and south transept screen, designed by Charles Ponting and installed from 1898 onwards. The north transept screen, dated 1900, incorporates Jacobean panelling and features the painted arms of Sir Anthony Hungerford. A tomb recess in the north chancel wall contains a coffin lid. Recumbent effigies of Sir Nicholas (died 1300) and Lady Margaret de Valers (died 1320) are found in the south transept under a large cusped ogee arch with ballflower and crocketed decoration. The north transept also contains a monument to Sir John and Sir Anthony Hungerford, erected in 1637, featuring kneeling marble effigies under a Renaissance-style canopy with a broken pediment, putti and heraldry.