All Saints

MATERIALS: Kentish ragstone rubble, brick faced to E and N with some areas of tile and random flint and stone chequerboard

Externally only the C15, 4 stage W tower is medieval

Small, very renewed C15 W door with a hood mould, 3-light C19 W window and 2-light trefoiled bell-openings in square frames

C15 tower arch with hollow chamfered outer orders and an inner order on round, attached shafts with polygonal capitals

C15 N arcade of 4 bays, with chamfered arches of two orders on polygonal piers with moulded capitals and bases

C19 S arcade is similar to N arcade but has larger capitals and a carved inscription recording its construction in 1889

The N side may be partly late C15 or early C16, the S is wholly C19

C12 fragments, discovered during the construction of the S aisle in the C19, are built into the W wall of the S aisle

The larger arch has two, excellently carved orders, the inner with chevron, the outer with grotesque faces clasping a spiral moulding and a band of stylised flowers

Loose fragments nearby include two C12 shafts, one with spiral carving, the other with chevron, and several C15 pieces, probably from a door or an arch

Nave roof is C15, low-pitched with short curved braces on defaced stone angel corbels, moulded tie beams and closely spaced rafters

N chapel roof is C16, flat and domestic in character with moulded wall plates and closely spaced rafters

The low-pitched N vestry roof is late C15 or C16 and has chamfered tie beams

Large C19, octagonal timber pulpit with blind tracery panelling

Font, dated 1872, in Perpendicular style with quatrefoils on the bowl and a traceried stem

Timber panelling behind chancel altar with riddle posts with angels, early C20

Very good late C19 wall painting in the chancel with figures of angels and saints and stencilled motifs

A small amount of C19 and early C20 glass, the best the fragments in the upper tracery of the S aisle windows

C15 or early C16 door to N vestry, leather covered and studded on chancel side, retaining traces of red colouring on the vestry side

Two C18 hatchments

Very good monuments, notably that to George Huxley of Wyre Hall, d. 1627, a two-stage wall monument in the Artisan Mannerist style, surmounted by Time flanked by skulls, similar to the work of the Christmas brothers

Several C16 and early C17 brasses, and a number of good wall tablets

Many C17 and C18 ledger slabs in the nave and chancel floors, most with armourial carving

Nothing of known of the construction history of the church between the mid C12 and the C15, when the church was wholly rebuilt

Some further work, including reroofing the N aisle, took place in the C17

The chancel wall paintings are late C19

The stained glass was largely lost during WWII