Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating to the 14th century, with a chancel and aisles added to an earlier nave. The aisles were altered in the 15th and early 16th centuries, while the nave arcades, clerestory, and west tower were built in the early 16th century. A 15th-century south porch exists, and the church was extensively restored in 1863 by G.E. Street.

The church is constructed from greensand rubble with limestone dressings and has a tiled roof to the chancel and lead roofs elsewhere. The west tower has three stages, featuring an octagonal stair turret slightly projecting from the southwest corner, a three-light opening to the bell chamber, and a four-light traceried window. The two-bay clerestory contains three-light windows with flat hoodmolds. The north aisle has 14th-century windows with reticulated tracery in its eastern bays, with two-light and three-light windows dating to the early 16th century. The south aisle has two bays of late 15th and early 16th century three-light traceried windows and a similar 14th-century doorway. The south porch has an altered battlemented parapet, diagonal buttresses, a double-chamfered two-centred arch, and a pair of trefoil-headed lancets in the side walls. The chancel contains restored Decorated windows, including a three-light eastern window, a two-light centre window, and a two-light north-side window, along with a small moulded window and a large three-light window to the east.

Inside, the tower has a tall, wide arch to the nave and a smaller arch to the north aisle, both slightly four-centred, resting on semi-octagonal piers with moulded caps. The nave features two bays of similar arches and a restored 16th-century roof with moulded tie beams, purlins, and a ridge; the tie beams sit on braces with small carved heraldic angels. An arch to rood-loft stairs is found in the northeast corner. The aisles have 16th-century roofs. The north aisle has a restored piscina while the south aisle showcases a cinquefoil piscina, two arched recesses in the east wall, and a squint to the chancel. The chancel arch is double-chamfered, supported by short semi-octagonal piers with moulded caps and tall bases. The chancel also has a sill course, a recess in the north wall with a moulded ogee arch, a restored triple sedilia with trefoil arches, and a 19th-century roof.

Notable fittings include a 15th-century octagonal font with traceried panels, remnants of old glass in the windows, a chest dated 1731, and other 19th and 20th-century fittings. Several monuments of historical significance are also present: a 1609 monument to Robert Lovett and his wife with kneeling figures and flanking obelisks; a monument to Eleanor Lovett (d. 1786) featuring a Coade stone figure reclining on an urn signed "Coade and Sealy"; a monument to Robert Lovett (1701) attributed to Grinling Gibbons, with an urn on a sarcophagus, cherubs, clouds, a crest with carved fruit swags, and flanking obelisks with eagle finials and weeping putti; a black marble obelisk to Verney Lovett (1771); a pedimented wall monument to Robert Lovett (1740); a grey marble obelisk to Jonathan Lovett (1770); a monument to John Sambee (1728); and numerous other wall tablets dedicated to the Lovett family.