All Saints

C14 west tower with moulded plinth, of 3 stages separated by chamfered string courses.

The spire was apparently re-erected in 1784, but was previously repaired in 1621, and hence may be of pre-Reformation date.

West bay has a C14 3 light flowing traceried window recut in the C19, middle bay has a door covered by a blocked late C18 rusticated brick porch with keystone pediment.

The east bay has a C14 3 light window with an ogee head flanked by trefoils, with flowing tracery.

C14 chancel of 2 bays, marked by stepped butresses, each containing a single 3 light flowing traceried window with an ogee head flanked by trefoils.

East chancel window has angled butresses and single C14 3 light flowing traceried light with trefoil heads.

South chancel wall of 2 bays, more easterly contains a partially recut C14 window with a pointed head and a door, recut, but with a moulded surround and hoodmould.

The western bay has a 3 light C14 window.

Nave south wall of 3 bays, the outer pair having C14 3 light windows, the central one with a brick rusticated porch with a plinth a band and a dropped keystone and pediment, covers a C14 pointed headed door with 2 orders of sunk wave mouldings and a moulded hood.

The chancel arch is also C14 and is unusually of 2 continuous chamfered orders terminating in square bases.

Otherwise roofs and fittings are C19 apart from the very fine late C18 organ, by James Wyatt, the turned alter rails of c1700 and the superb late C17 lectern in the customary form of an eagle, but with the unusual embellishments of scrolly brackets and putti heads.

Font is of marble and dated 1948.

In the chancel are 2 fine C17 monuments.

On the south side to William Pelham, knight, d. 1629 showing him and his lady reclining on a rich tomb chest on which are depictd 14 children kneeling as well as 3 chrisms beneath 3 semicircular headed arches, on the rear panels of which are coloured marble veneers.

The other monument to a William Pelham shows him and his wife kneeling opposite one another, he with 3 sons, she with 3 by 3 Corinthian columns and the centre of which is a carved and painted shield of arms.

Of the later monuments, that to Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley, killed at Flanders 1914, is notable since it is in a pleasing C17 style.

A memorial to Charles Sackville Pelham Lord Worsley who died in 1914 aged 27. He was serving in C Squadron of the Household Cavalry. An order to withdraw did not reach the machine gun section he was in charge of, or some of the other soldiers. They were cut off, and Lord Worsley was first listed as 'Missing', and was officially recorded as dead early in 1915. However, his body had been found and buried by the Germans, and a plan of where he had been buried was later passed on via Diplomatic channels from the Germans. In December 1918 his grave was located by a British Officer using the plans, with the upright wooden portion of the cross which had been placed there by the Germans still standing. A replacement wooden cross was put there in January 1919, and Lord Worsley's widow later purchased this land. However in 1921, as part of the process of concentrating graves, his body was exhumed and reburied in Ypres at the Town Cemetery Military Extension. (Info from ww1battlefields.co.uk)

© Julian P Guffogg