Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church with origins in the 12th century, incorporating elements from the 17th century and later additions from 1904. It was restored and altered in the 19th century by C Hodgson Fowler. The church is constructed of rubble sandy limestone, with some fragments of earlier carved stone. The chancel and vestry have stone flag roofs, the nave has slate on the north side and tile on the south, the porch roof is tiled and the bellcote is timber-shingled.

The west end features an offset angle buttress to the north. A blocked round-arched doorway, featuring a roll-moulded arch on attached shafts with scalloped capitals, is visible, weathered by time. Above the door is a 2-light square-headed mullioned window, and above that, an original round-headed light. A square-section bellcote, topped with a sprocketed spirelet and weather vane, sits on the west end.

The nave has a gabled south porch with a round-arched opening. The south doorway is round-arched with two orders, the outer roll-moulded. Although the shafts are gone, capitals with traces of waterleaf remain. Above this doorway is a decaying relief, possibly depicting Samson and the Lion. Two square-headed, 2-light mullioned windows, flank an original round-headed light to the east of the porch. A blocked, round-arched, chamfered doorway is on the north side, partly obscured by a later outbuilding.

The chancel has a blocked priests' door on the south side, and a 2-light mullioned window to the north. The east end displays an offset clasping buttress to the south and a buttress incorporated into the vestry to the north. A 20th-century pointed west window with three trefoil-headed lights and panel tracery rises above the chancel. Coped gables are present on the porch and west end.

Inside, portions of three original openings are visible: the arch of the blocked west door, jamb and arch section of the north door, and a round window head in the nave south wall. The semicircular chancel arch, of two plain orders, retains an original shaft with a scalloped capital as the north respond. A piscina is located to the east of the south door, and a second piscina with a fluted bowl is in the sanctuary’s south wall. The church contains 17th-century pews with raised and fielded panelling, carved ends and acorn knobs, as well as 17th-century turned altar rails. A 17th-century hatchment hangs above the south door.