Church of St Gregory

The Church of St Gregory is a building of early 12th-century origin, with later additions from the 13th and 14th centuries. The church was significantly altered in the mid-17th century and restored in 1879-80. It is constructed of stone rubble with tile roofs and comprises a west tower with a stone spire, a nave, a north porch, a south aisle, a south transeptal chapel, and a lower chancel.

The tower features diagonal buttresses with niches and a south-east stair turret. The spire is set back behind an embattled parapet, and the bell openings are single trefoiled lights. The west window of the tower has three trefoiled lights under a pointed head with Perpendicular tracery. A chamfered lancet window is set into the west wall of the aisle. The north wall of the nave has three windows: the left-hand window has one light with a low transom and a trefoiled ogee head; the central window has three cinquefoiled lights under a pointed head with Perpendicular tracery; the right-hand window has three trefoiled lights under a pointed head.

The timber-framed north porch is close-studded with a middle rail. The 12th-century doorway has a round arch with zig-zag ornament and angle shafts with scalloped capitals, featuring a tympanum carved with the Agnus Dei. The south aisle has a 15th-century three-light window under a pointed head, and to its right is a reset doorway similar to the north doorway but with a blank tympanum.

The south chapel has a hipped roof and a three-light south window with cusped intersecting tracery. The east wall of the chapel contains a window of two trefoiled lights. In the south wall of the chancel is a window of two cinquefoiled lights under a flat head, accompanied by a priest's doorway to the left. Two narrow round-headed 12th-century windows are built into the north wall, repositioned during the 19th-century restoration. The east window is 19th-century and features three cinquefoiled lights under a pointed head.

Internally, the tall, pointed, and chamfered tower arch is in two orders. The south arcade comprises three and a half bays. The pointed, roughly four-centred arches are chamfered in two orders and spring from piers, which are octagonal except for the western one, which is circular. The nave roof has rafters with arch-braced collars. High up in the north wall are two bracketed niches with elaborate carved canopies. The chancel arch is pointed and chamfered in two orders that die into the responds.

A font with a bowl carved with acanthus foliage sits on an octagonal base. The south transept houses an 18th-century baluster font, and in the east wall is a 13th-century piscina with a pointed head. The communion rails have flat pierced balusters inscribed with “R H S B 1684. Robert Archer Minister. J B W B 1683”.