All Hallows

The S aisle is C15

Early C16 S porch

The chancel, transepts and vestry are 1875 by Butterfield in a C13 style, and have his characteristic banded stone and brick diapering

The C15 S aisle is ragstone rubble construction and has a round rood stair turret marking the former junction of nave and chancel

The very fine C16 brick porch is two-storied and has diaper brickwork, stone dressings and an embattled parapet, much renewed

The string course below the parapet has angels and Tudor roses

the inner S door has a segmental head and retains its original early C16 carved spandrels

The porch roof has hefty early C16 rafters

Of four stages with an embattled parapet, the lower part is C14 and has a blocked C15 or early C16 W door and W window

On the E face, the central blocked opening (now largely hidden by the C19 roof) is flanked by blind, two light windows with cusping in simple flint flushwork, late C14 or early C15

INTERIOR: The medieval fabric is largely plastered and painted, while Butterfield¿s work displays his characteristic structural polychromy and use of tiles, especially in the chancel, which is very richly decorated

The three westernmost and the 5th pairs of piers are C14

The tower arch is of a similar C14 design to the nave arcades, and the nave W wall is covered in C19 geometric tiles below the level of the clerestory

The E end is wholly by Butterfield in a C13 style

The lower part of the sanctuary walls enriched with blind arcading in a C13 style with detached marble shafts and fine geometric tiles behind the arcading

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Only a few fittings, notably monuments, survived the C19 restoration

The N aisle W window has outstanding early C16 French glass, presented in 1807 and formerly in the E window

This depicts the prophets David, Isaiah and Jeremiah beneath three large seated evangelists

The S aisle roof has C15 king posts on plain tie beams

The backs of the central arch and the flanking square panels have fine geometric tiles, and there is further stone panelling with foiled circles at dado level

Excellent tester and stone pulpit with open marble and alabaster arcading in a C13 Italian Gothic style

Polygonal font with two rows of detached marble shafts

The glass in the chancel, transepts and aisles is by Gibbs and was designed under Butterfield's direction, although only the E window, those in the S transept and the first S aisle window are by Gibbs himself

Good C19 floor tiles in the chancel and at the W end of the nave

A rood group, with life sized figures, in the N aisle is said to have been executed in the Exeter workshop of noted ecclesiastical sculptor Harry Hems (1842-1916). A length of cornice with carved angels, also in the N aisle, is probably C19

There are some good monuments, including several late C16 and C17 brasses and wall tablets

Of black and white marble, they have elegant demi-figures in an architectural frame with kneeling children below, and shows leading tendencies in mid C17 tomb design

The brass for Margaret Irby, d.1640, is also interesting as it has gracefully sketched kneeling figures on a single sheet of brass

The double square plan of the medieval nave (as defined by the position of the former rood screen) suggests that the church was rebuilt in the C12

The earliest surviving fabric, however, is the C14 W tower and the western 6 bays of the present nave arcades, which formed an undivided nave and chancel before the C19 rebuilding

In the late C15 the aisles were rebuilt and probably widened