Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating to the late 12th century, with a south aisle originally serving as the nave. A 14th-century nave, chancel, and south chapel were added, alongside 15th-century alterations and a west tower incorporating older masonry. The entire building underwent extensive restoration between 1882 and 1891, led by Reverend F.W. Ragg, who also designed the chancel’s decoration. The church is constructed of limestone, clunch, and flint, predominantly in a chequered pattern, with lead roofs except for the tiled chancel.

The three-stage west tower features a plinth, angle buttresses, and a rebuilt parapet. It has two-light traceried openings to the bell chamber, paired except for the south-facing window. A cusped niche is located on the second stage of the south side, and a three-light cusped window sits above the doorway, featuring an old moulded surround and 19th-century carved spandrels. The nave has a battlemented parapet, a 19th-century corbel table with carved fleurons, and an octagonal turret for the rood-loft stairs at the east end. Perpendicular windows brighten the nave, with three-lights on the left and two-lights on the right. A 19th-century north porch provides access. The chancel is built of rubble and has an elaborate 19th-century four-light traceried window.

The south aisle displays a battlemented parapet, a much-restored three-light Perpendicular window to the right, and a 19th-century gabled timber porch with a tiled roof. The south chapel exhibits a parapet with 19th-century carved friezes, a four-light traceried window to the east, and two three-light windows to the south; the left window incorporates Y tracery while the right features Perpendicular tracery.

Inside, the tower arch is triple-chamfered, with semi-octagonal piers and 13th-century stiff-leaf capitals. The tower also contains fragments of older masonry. A three-bay arcade separates the nave and south aisle, featuring double-chamfered arches with broach-stopped chamfered reveals, supported by octagonal piers with moulded caps and bases. Four-centred arched openings provide access to the rood loft and stairs within the nave. The south aisle contains an arched recess in the south wall. Both the nave and aisle have restored roofs with moulded cross beams dating from the 15th to 16th centuries. The arches leading to the chancel and chapel were remodeled in the 19th century and rest on shaft corbels with richly carved foliage bases and caps; those to the chancel include carved heads of virtues. The chancel has similar ornamental shafts at each corner and in the center of the north wall. Further 19th-century decoration in the chancel includes arched panels filled with carved foliage ornament along the north wall and within the window reveals, as well as a blind trefoil arcade above the choir stalls. Two arches to the south chapel mirror the nave arcade, with the east arch being original and the other completely restored. An elaborate cusped piscina is found within the south chapel. 19th-century fittings include a pulpit supported by a relocated 14th-century stone capital carved with angels. A notable monument in the south chapel is an altar tomb featuring carved alabaster panels, pilasters with incised figures set within black marble tablets, and a brass panel depicting a reclining knight surrounded by his mourning family, signed "Evesham fecit." Other brasses commemorate Nicholas? and his family (1585), Edmond West, and marble wall tablets dedicated to members of the Seare family (1773, 1792, and 1807).