Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church located on Church Road in Farringdon. It dates from the 12th century, with additions from the 13th century and around 1400. The church was restored and enlarged in 1858 by the architect Woodyer. It features stone and rendered walls topped with a tile roof. The structure includes a nave of three bays, a north aisle, a chancel, a large north vestry, a west tower, and a south porch. The roof is plain, taller over the chancel, separate over the vestry, and has very low eaves over the windowless north aisle. The nave walls are cement-rendered, and there are three-light Perpendicular windows on each side of the porch. The chancel and vestry display polygonal masonry with stepped buttresses and various Gothic windows, including an east window with curvilinear tracery, a band, and a plinth. The lower part of the tower is from the 13th century and has three lancets, while the upper part is from the 14th century, featuring small quatrefoil openings in the bell stage. The tower walls are rendered, and the roof is a shingled broach spire. The south porch, built in 1634, is made of brickwork in Flemish bond with blue headers, featuring small oval side lights and a front with a two-centred pointed arch within a projecting frame, topped by a brick band and a moulded pediment. Inside, the arcade consists of later plain round arches resting on circular piers, with scalloped caps in the western bay and moulded caps in the eastern bays. There is a small Norman north door that is blocked. The ceiling is flat between tie beams, but arched with moulded wall-plates at the east end. The chancel is in the Victorian Early English style. Notable interior features include a classical wall monument from 1770 in the nave, a panelled 18th-century pulpit, and a bowl font resting on four 13th-century capitals, with other fittings from the Victorian period. Gilbert White, known for his work in nearby Selborne, served as a curate here from 1761 to 1785.