Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating to the 12th and 13th centuries, with later alterations and a restoration in 1848. It is constructed of coursed, squared rubble with buttressing at the east and west ends. The roofs are of graduated slate with stone copings, a 17th-century apex finial, and a gabled bellcote to the west end. The church was originally two cells, but a former west tower has been opened up and is now incorporated into the aisleless nave; an original nave string-course is visible above the gabled 18th-century south porch.

The south door, dating to the 12th century, has a single roll-moulding to its semicircular head, with rosette decoration to the hoodmould. A single jamb shaft survives, and the capitals feature chip-carved abaci with low-relief figures – one with scallop decoration, the other moulded (possibly recut in the 13th century). A partly blocked north nave door is similar, with cushion capitals and billet ornament to the hoodmould, but lacking both jamb shafts. Two contemporary carved stones are set in the wall above; one depicts two knights jousting, and the other bears a badly weathered inscription. On the south side, there is a single 18th-century window with a semicircular head to the left of the porch, and two similar windows to the right, all with diagonally leaded glass. The narrower chancel has a square-headed 14th/15th-century window and two lancets, the second of which has had its sill raised to accommodate a 17th-century doorway. Single 12th-century slit windows are situated near the east end of both the north and south walls. A three-light east window is largely 19th-century, set within a 14th-century pointed hoodmould. At the west end, dogtooth ornamented trefoil heads to single-light windows on either side of a central buttress originally formed a 13th/14th-century quatrefoil panel.

Inside, the plain semicircular 17th-century chancel arch has a 19th-century traceried screen infill. The font is hemispherical, set on a square pedestal with a chamfered base and capital, and has a conical, ribbed, wooden cover initialled and dated T.G. W.H. 1687. A wooden poor box, with a dated inscription (now partly painted out) reading “1634 The pour mans box and churchwardens seat,” is fastened to the wall on the east side of the door. Re-used 17th-century panelling is present at the west end, along with a gallery above. Various commemorative wooden panels on the nave walls detail the gifts of benefactors; an 18th-century memorial stone, fastened externally to the south wall of the chancel, records the gifts of James Hanson and his wife to the village school. A badly weathered 14th-century tomb effigy is set in the south wall of the nave to the left of the porch.