Church Of All Hallows

The Church of All Hallows is an Anglican parish church located in South Cerney. It has Norman origins and has undergone various alterations throughout the medieval period. The church was restored in 1862 by J.P. St. Aubyn. The structure features a rubble stone tower and chancel, with the remainder primarily constructed of coursed stone. The dressed stone aisle walls sit on an offset plinth, and the chancel has a stone slate roof, while the rest of the church is covered with plain tiles, complete with coped verges and cross finials.

The church has a nave flanked by north and south aisles, a south porch, and a central tower. The chancel includes a small north vestry. The tower consists of three stages, with an offset at the lower level and a string course at a higher level. It is supported by stepped buttresses on the north and south sides halfway up the second stage, topped with an embattled parapet and corner pinnacles. The bottom stage features single Norman lancets on the north and south sides, while the second stage has a single square-headed light with a relieving arch. The top stage includes twin belfry louvres and a clock on the south face, along with large tie bar oval plates near the top. A stair tower is located at the south-west corner, and there is a sundial on the south-east buttress.

The north aisle contains a partly restored Norman north door, along with 2 and 3-light Decorated 19th-century windows and stepped buttresses. The chancel features a 3-light east window adorned with ball flower decoration in the upper tracery, and a small ogee-headed priest's door on the south side, situated between two 2-light Decorated windows, all dating from the 14th century. On the south side, there is a large 19th-century porch with angle buttresses and a tall coped gable, along with a rear Norman doorway that has beakheads and chevron moulding, which was relocated to this position in 1862.

Inside, the church has a five-bay nave with a braced and strutted collar beam roof, featuring moulding on the underside and two tiers of arched wind bracing. The five-bay Early English arcade is supported by cylindrical piers with attached shafts. The tower arches are keel-moulded. In the chancel, there is a double piscina and sedilia, with a braced crossed strut roof carried on a ridge beam. The aisles and chancel contain many fine black and white marble wall monuments from the 18th and 19th centuries.