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All Saints is filled with many outstanding features, most notably its collection of monuments to the Curzon family, in the grounds of whose family house the church stands. The monuments span an amazing 700 years and include mediaeval alabaster effigies and 18th century memorials designed by Robert Adam and Michael Rysbrack. The most striking is the magnificent memorial chapel constructed by Lord Curzon, the former Viceroy of India, in 1906, to the memory of his wife Mary. Its dazzling white marble tomb, green translucent quartz floor and superb stained glass windows, made deliberately pale so as to throw light on the monument, combine to create a sumptuous and extravagant chapel. Essentially 13th century, with a classical east end, All Saints is filled with fine fittings including oak box pews, pulpit and communion rails. However, its oldest feature is the Norman south doorway which has zigzag moulding and grotesque birds heads. Look out for the carving of the horseman and wild beasts just above the door!