All Saints

The glory of All Saints church is the early 15 century painting of the Doom or Last Judgment, over the chancel arch. Christ is shown majesty sitting on crossed rainbows between the Virgin Mary and St John. The painting may have been interrupted as their faces appear unfinished. High up on the left are the towers the New Jerusalem, the Heavenly City, and everpart of the last trump sounding to raise the dead.

There is one most unusual feature on the way to their fires of hell the damned souls are showed being hanged on two medieval gibbets. with a demon (or the Devil himself hauling on one of the ropes. This dates from the time the church was built but was later covered. It was found in1870 and restored in 1935.

All the stained glass in the church is from the 19th and 20th centuries. In the chancel the richly coloured glass of the great east window, by Gibbs 1861, is a memorial to Admiral William, 8th Earl Waldegrave, and vividly portrays the crucifixion. The organ here is a very special instrument. It was built in 1878 by 'Father' Willis, the first and greatest of generations of organ builders. It has 3 manuals and 25 stops and can produce over 1,000 sounds. Since it is tonally unaltered since its construction top quality organists are attracted to playing an annual series of organ concerts that have been held for the last 30 years. The organ is housed just outside the old north aisle window which was lowered for the purpose.