Parish Church Of St Denys

The Parish Church of St Denys is a Grade I listed building dating from around 1430, with some window tracery reworked in the 19th century. The chancel is constructed of cobblestones, while the rest of the church features coursed freestone rubble, all with ashlar dressings. The church includes a chancel, north vestry, nave, south porch, and west tower, all topped with embattled parapets.

The chancel has a depressed two-centred arched five-light east window, flanked by buttresses, with one window on the north wall and two on the south wall, all pointed arched and three-light. The north doorway has a four-centred head and label, and there is a priest's door on the south wall. The north vestry contains a two-light east window and two blocked squints due to the Dyer monument. Inside, there is a tall narrow chancel arch, and the nave features three windows on each side similar to those in the chancel. A rood loft staircase is located to the northeast with three doorways, and there is a squint south of the chancel arch, along with a north doorway. The tower arch resembles the chancel arch.

The south porch was intended to be vaulted and has two springers. The west tower consists of four stages, diagonal buttresses, and an octagonal spire with lucarnes. The cornice below the parapet has a shield on each side, and the west window matches those found elsewhere in the church.

Inside, there is a 15th-century octagonal font adorned with shields and flowers. The chancel features a finely crafted large alabaster figured monument from 1641 dedicated to Sir William Dyer and his family. A Purbeck slab with an inscribed copper plate from 1389 commemorates Alianora Braybrook on the south wall of the chancel. Fragments of 15th-century glass, including a complete angel, can be seen in the north window of the chancel, while other glass was created by Heaton, Butler and Bayne in London in 1893. The roofs have been restored, but the nave still displays 15th-century foliate bosses, carved braces, and figures, with angels in the center of each bay holding shields and emblems of the Passion.