Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church located in Otterhampton Village. It was established in the 12th century, with significant work carried out in the 14th and 15th centuries, and much restoration in the 19th century. The church is constructed from coursed and squared blue lias and sandstone rubble, featuring coped verges and slate roofs. It is designed in the Perpendicular style and includes a nave, chancel, a north chapel that now serves as a vestry, and a west tower.

The tower is three stages high and embattled, with diagonal buttresses and 2-light bell chamber windows that have louvres, along with prominent gargoyles. The west door and west windows are both three-light, adorned with stopped labels. The nave consists of two bays, while the chancel has a single bay, with windows that are square-headed and feature foiled heads and rere-arches. Each window opening has a label, with those on the south side of the nave displaying stops carved as heads. The east window has three lights and also includes a rere-arch.

A buttressed porch leads to a plain chamfered doorway, and inside, there are benches and a foiled niche on the east wall, along with a 15th-century inner door. The interior has been scraped and features tile floors. The chancel and tower arches are plain and chamfered, with the chancel arch flanked by ogee and semi-circular headed niches, while the tower arch has a moulded head on corbels.

The church contains a Norman font with a ribbed Jacobean cover, a restored 15th-century chancel screen with two Jacobean figures believed to represent Adam and Eve, and 19th-century pews, choir stalls, and a pulpit. There are also two sconces for candles near the north window of the chancel, a 17th-century altar rail with turned balusters (some of which have been removed), and several tablets on the chancel floor, including one with a floriated cross marking the vault of the Everard family, along with three 19th-century tablets, a wooden plaque with an achievement, and a large painting of Christ in The Judgement Hall.

The tower houses an Elizabethan bell-frame and four bells, one dating from the 16th century and two others dated 1617 and 1737. There is a railed enclosure to the east of the porch, featuring cast-iron railings with spear caps.