Church of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to the medieval period, constructed of rubble stone with slate roofs and red terracotta ridges. The building has a complex layout with seven different rooflines. A medieval tower was reduced in height and given a gable roof, alongside a medieval nave. A lean-to north aisle and chancel were added, with roof pitches altered in 1853-4. A gabled northeast chapel, taller than the north aisle, was added during 1853-4, as was a lower gabled northwest vestry in the later 19th century, and a south porch also in 1853-4. Both a west bellcote and a nave east bellcote were remodelled or rebuilt during the 1853-4 works. Windows date from 1853-4 and feature flush painted ashlar surrounds.

The west tower features a flat-topped bellcote with a single pointed opening, a southwest stair tower projecting west and south, asymmetrical slopes to the gable, and a 19th-century two-light west window with a blocked single light above. The nave has a coped gabled east bellcote with one opening, a south porch with a coped gable, cross finial, and pointed doorway, and a two-light, unmoulded south window with a roundel. The north aisle has three small lancet windows. The northwest vestry has a coped gable and a single west lancet window. The chancel is of similar length to the nave, containing a single small light in the south wall, an ashlar three-light east window with simple cusped heads and a hoodmould. The northeast chapel is shorter, featuring a two-light east window similar to the nave’s south window and a small north cusped lancet.

Internally, the rubble stone walls are covered by 19th-century roofs with arch-braced collar trusses and cusping to the apex with angle struts. Segmental pointed relieving arches are present above 19th-century windows and doors. At the west end, the base of the medieval tower retains a fine pointed stone vault, with walls splayed inwards towards the west window. The nave contains a 13th-century square font, scalloped and set on a round shaft with a square base. A 19th-century ashlar pointed chancel arch and a pair of segmental arches to a north arcade rest on a square pier. A lean-to north aisle, gabled northwest vestry, and a stone pointed arch lead to a 19th-century northeast chapel, which itself has a segmental arch to the chancel. A blocked north window exists within the chancel, and the northeast chapel’s east window is of similar design to the nave’s south window.

Fittings include a 1870 west window depicting Faith & Hope with two figure panels on an aesthetic movement yellow and white stylised plant background. Below this sits a small female effigy, potentially medieval or from the 16th century. The nave has an altered pitch pine pulpit, while the north aisle displays two reset medieval incised stones at its west end: one with a crude head of a lady, and another showing the outline of a bell. The northeast chapel’s east window contains patterned glass from around 1865, below which is a former east end reredos of 1888 with quatrefoil panels. A 10th-century cross-inscribed stone, carved onto a rounded beach stone with a Latin wheel cross and interlace border, is reset between the northeast chapel and the chancel. Short lengths of rail with iron shafts and Maltese crosses are present in the chancel arch. The sanctuary features fine encaustic tile paving dating from 1888 and an east window with stained glass from around 1865, depicting Christ carrying the Cross within patterned coloured glass.