Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church located in Ashcott, predominantly dating from the 15th century, with significant alterations made in the 19th century, particularly the widening of the nave in 1831. The building features coursed and squared rubble with freestone dressings, and roofs covered in tile and lead sheeting, some with coped verges and cruciform finials. It is designed in the Perpendicular style.

The church includes a nave with a south porch, a chancel that has an organ loft and a heated vestry, and a west tower that is embattled and consists of two stages. The lower stage has diagonal buttresses and two-light bell-chamber windows, along with prominent gargoyles. The west façade features a three-light window and a west door with elaborate hinges, next to a plaque displaying the arms of Abbot Selwood of Glastonbury Abbey. There is also a stair turret on the south side.

The nave has three bays and is buttressed, with three-light windows and a parapet pierced by quatrefoils. The porch has a broad outer door opening with a 4-centred arch and paired wrought-iron gates, along with a cusped niche above. Inside the porch, there are benches with a flagstone floor and a stoup. The chancel has two bays and elaborate three-light windows, while the vestry is also embattled.

The interior is plastered, featuring 20th-century wood block and mosaic floors. The nave has a 19th-century coffered ceiling, while the chancel boasts a wagon roof. Both the chancel and tower arches were reconstructed in the 19th century, with the chancel arch being shafted. The church contains a 15th-century pulpit on a 19th-century stone plinth, a Norman tub font, and 19th-century pews, many of which have 15th and 16th-century traceried ends, along with some unusual 16th and 17th-century ends with semi-circular fluting. There are six 18th-century wall monuments, the largest of which is in the chancel, and three 19th-century wall monuments. The church also features the Hanoverian Royal Arms and a 19th-century plaque under the tower commemorating local charities, as well as a 19th-century chancel screen, organ, choir stalls, and stained glass. Notably, the chancel's south window was designed by Kempe in 1889, and the east window dates from 1898.