Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating to the 19th century, with a 15th-century tower. The tower was restored in 1859, while the nave, aisle, and porch were rebuilt in 1869 by Benjamin Ferrey, incorporating piers from the original arcade. The church is constructed of red sandstone rubble with Ham stone dressings. It has clay tiled roofs with coped verges and crosses, except on the porch.

The building consists of a crenellated three-stage west tower with a south-east stair turret, a two-bay south aisle, a south porch, a chancel with a south chapel, and a south-east vestry. The tower features enlarged central merlons with pierced panels, set-back buttresses, gargoyles, cinquefoil-headed bell openings with Somerset tracery, and a crenellated stair turret. The west window is three-light. The south aisle has a buttressed three-light window, and the porch is gabled with a pointed arch outer doorway and an exaggerated trefoil-headed inner doorway. The chancel features a priest’s door, a two-light east window to the vestry, diagonal buttresses with colonettes at the east end, and a three-light east window. The north front has two lancets and two two-light windows, with a lancet at the west end.

Internally, the church is rendered. The church contains moulded arches dying into imposts to the chancel and chapel, and a pointed tower arch with trefoil-headed jambs. Two original Perpendicular piers and the west respond remain, with angel capitals; the eastern respond was recut and carries 19th-century arches. The roof is a waggon roof, ribbed and boarded with bosses. A chamfered Tudor arch leads to the stair turret doorway. Fittings include a panelled screen to the vestry, a font with a brass ewer, a stone pulpit, 19th-century benches incorporating elements of a 16th-century bench ends, and an early 20th-century carved oak lectern. Stained glass, including an east window commemorating those who died in 1884, is present. A harmonium is also part of the furnishings. The arcade is believed to incorporate the arms of the Bluet family, who were lords of the manor.