Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church located in Dodington, with significant architectural developments spanning several centuries. The chancel was rebuilt and the church was enlarged in the 15th century, while the nave was refenestrated and re-roofed in the 16th century. The chancel was further refenestrated in the early 17th century, and a chapel was added in 1610. The upper stage of the tower was completed in 1772. The church features a rendered exterior that is grooved to resemble ashlar on the chapel, with quoins, and the tower is constructed from blue lias and red sandstone random rubble. The porch is made of squared and coursed red sandstone, and the roofs are covered with slate, featuring coped verges.

The layout includes a nave, chancel, southeast chapel, north porch, and west tower. The tower is crenellated and consists of three stages, with a three-light west window and a blocked roll-moulded west door. There is a square southwest stair turret. On the south front, there are two- and three-light windows to the left of the porch, which have hollow chamfered mullions with trefoil heads beneath square hood moulds. The gabled porch has a moulded arched entrance and a rectangular memorial plaque set in the gable end, along with a ribbed roof and a niche for a statue above the inner door. A diagonal buttress is located at the junction between the nave and chancel, with a left two-light ogee-headed mullioned window under a square hood mould. The east window of the chapel is a similar three-light design, with a plaque above inscribed "GD.ID, 1610." The south front also features a four-centred arch doorway, with three- and two-light mullioned windows to the left.

Inside, the church is rendered, with a ribbed barrel vault adorned with bosses in the nave and an arch-braced collar truss roof in the chancel. The chancel arch is from the 14th century, and there is a round-headed moulded arch leading to the chapel from the chancel. The chapel, built in 1610 as the Dodington family pew, contains an impressive set of early 17th-century bench ends with inset trefoil-headed panels, along with pews and panelling. There are remains of medieval glass in the chancel window, and the choir stalls and pulpit date from around 1910. This church is a rare example of an early 17th-century chapel with its original fittings.