Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church that dates back to the early 12th century, with various alterations and additions made throughout the Medieval period, along with some restoration in the 19th century. The building features roughcast walls with stone dressings, a rubble stone porch, and a tower and west wall. It has a stone slate roof with coped gables and cross finials. The layout includes a crossing tower, a gabled south porch with a sundial, a single bay chancel, a nave, and north and south aisles, with the north aisle truncated at the west end.

The tower is two stages high, featuring a corbel table between the stages. The first stage has recessed round arches on the south and west faces, with a clock face on the south face above. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet that has corner pinnacles and gargoyles. The east wall of the chancel has blind arches below the window level, and there are three blind arches in the northwest corner of the nave, two of which are round. The windows mainly feature Perpendicular tracery, with aisle windows consisting of three-light trefoils with ogee heads.

Inside, the church has a scissor beam nave roof and a five-bay arcade on the south side, with moulded pointed Early English arches supported by cylindrical piers, some of which have carved capitals. The base of the tower is from the 12th century but was heightened in the 15th century. A stone pulpit is located on the northwest pier of the tower, which includes a spiral stone rood staircase leading to a very narrow door in the pier above. The chancel, added in the 15th century, contains several 17th-century floor tombstones. The church features Victorian pews, many of which have brass candlesticks.

Notably, there is a Norman font under the south crossing arch, which may have originally been a Roman altar, and a 15th-century font in the southwest corner. The churchyard is the burial site of David Mushet, a metallurgist from Coleford whose experiments significantly advanced the steel industry.