Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church located in Somerford Keynes. It has a Saxon foundation dating back to around 685, but was largely rebuilt in the early 13th century. The tower was constructed between 1710 and 1713 and the church underwent restoration in 1875 by Waller, which included the addition of a north aisle. The building is made of coursed and tooled stone, featuring some snecking and flush quoins, and has a sprocketed stone slate roof with coped verges and saddlestones topped with cross finials.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a south porch, a chancel, and a north aisle. The tower has three stages with offsets, an embattled parapet, corner pinnacles, and stepped buttresses up to the second stage. It features twin round-arched louvred belfry lights on the top stage on all sides, a similar window on the second stage to the west, a large three-light Perpendicular window below, and a small segmental-headed doorway. There is a narrow Saxon doorway in the aisleless section of the north wall of the nave, which has a stilted arch supported by stepped corbels. The nave and chancel have two-light windows, some of which have been restored, with a priest's door located between the two chancel windows on the south side, and a 19th-century three-light lancet window to the east.

Inside, the nave features a roof of five bays with braced collar beams and struts to the principal rafters, along with two tiers of arched wind bracing. The arcade on the north side is in the Early English style, consisting of two bays for the nave and one for the chancel. The north aisle contains a large black and white marble monument with a reclining effigy dedicated to Robert Straung (Strange), who died in 1654. The chancel includes sedilia, a 13th-century piscina, and a 15th-century screen.