Church Of St Mary And St Andrew

Parish Church. Parts of the north wall date to the 12th century, and fragments from this period are incorporated into the south wall of the 1876-7 south aisle. The chancel was rebuilt in the mid 14th century, and the west tower was constructed in the late 14th or early 15th century. The church is built of clunch rubble and fieldstone, with rendered surfaces and dressed clunch ashlar to the chancel. Limestone is used for the dressings, and the roofs are tiled. The church comprises a west tower, a nave, a south aisle, and a chancel.

The west tower has an embattled parapet over three stages, with a splayed plinth and contemporary three-stage angle buttressing. The restored west window is of three cinquefoil lights above a west doorway, now glazed. The doorway has a two-centred arch in a square head, with shields of the See of Ely and Bishop John Fordham in the spandrels. The bell stage has two cinquefoil openings in a four-centred arch to each wall.

The nave was largely restored in 1876-7, except for the north wall which retains 12th-century fabric with 15th-century window openings. The south aisle incorporates 12th-century fragments. The mid 14th-century chancel has restored Decorated tracery to three windows on the north and south walls and to the east window. The two-stage buttresses are original, although the upper wall of the east gable end is likely rebuilt. A blocked opening, dating from the 14th to 15th centuries, is visible in the north wall of the nave; it likely served as access to a now-demolished chapel. The north porch dates to the 16th century, with brick nogging between the timber frame of the gable; the wall material is now rendered. The porch has a hollow-moulded, four-centred outer arch in a square head with a moulded tie beam above. The original double door is battened, with cover strips to the vertical planks.

Inside, the south arcade is a 19th-century restoration. The chancel is noteworthy, with a moulded sill running below the windows and above a mid 14th-century piscina with a nodding ogee arch. Similar nodding ogees are found to the rear arches of the windows, which also have engaged nook shafts to the jambs. The roofs are from the 19th century. The font is from the 13th century, with a tapering limestone bowl on a modern base. A gallery in a Gothic style, dating from around 1840, is situated on an arcade of seven bays. A wall tomb in the north wall of the chancel features a 14th-century moulded ogee arch.