Parish Church (Dedication Unknown)

The parish church, of unknown dedication, displays a history spanning from the 11th century with significant alterations and extensions in the 15th and 16th centuries. Constructed primarily of flint rubble with limestone dressings, the church features a red plain tile roof. The nave exhibits a southwest angle built with long and short work. Its north wall incorporates a late 16th-century window with two cinquefoiled lights and a square head, a 14th-century window with two trefoiled ogee lights under a square head, and a 19th-century window set within earlier splayed reveals and retaining the earlier rear arch. A north doorway is now blocked. The south wall features a late 14th-century window opening with a four-centred rear arch, and a 18th-century timber-framed section. A south doorway is defined by a segmental pointed arch.

The late 15th-century chancel retains its original east window comprising three cinquefoiled lights with tracery under a two-centred head, with moulded external jambs and head. The north and south walls of the chancel contain original windows, each with two plain four-centred lights set within a four-centred head. A small south doorway has a four-centred head. The late 15th-century chancel arch is two-centred, formed of two moulded orders, with a tile inner order resting on attached semi-octagonal shafts, which have moulded capitals and bases.

The late 15th-century west tower rises in three stages, lacking string courses and topped by an embattled parapet and a stair turret. A string course to the parapet is punctuated by gargoyles on each side. West buttresses feature quatrefoiled panels with blank shields. The tower arch is two-centred, composed of three chamfered orders on the east side and two on the west. Inner arches rest on semi-octagonal shafts with moulded capitals and bases. A doorway to the stair turret has a four-centred head. The original west window consists of three cinquefoiled ogee lights with tracery under a two-centred head, with a moulded label. The second stage has a simple rectangular west window. The bell chamber has windows of two cinquefoiled ogee lights with a quatrefoil under a two-centred head and a moulded label in each wall.

A 16th-century south porch is constructed of red brick, with a four-centred arch of two chamfered orders. Side walls feature single four-centred lights under square heads with moulded labels. The porch has a simple collar roof with moulded wall plates. The nave roof is 15th-century, with king posts mounted on collars for two central trusses, tie beams at ends. The chancel roof is a 15th-century roof of seven cants.

Inside the chancel, a monument in the north wall commemorates Hagdala, wife of John Southcote (1598). It features a painted tablet depicting a kneeling figure in a flat head dress and ruff, flanked by Ionic columns, with a shield of arms above the cornice. A Nave altar tomb commemorates Sir Edward Waldegrave and his wife Francis (Neville), dating to 1561 and 1599 respectively. Constructed from clunch, it contains painted recumbent effigies of a man in plate armour and turf and a woman in a flat cap and large ruff. Crests are present at the feet of both effigies. The tomb’s panelled sides depict kneeling figures of three sons and three daughters, complete with inscriptions and shields of arms. A canopy with a coffered soffit sits on six Corinthian columns. A cornice is surmounted by cresting, achievements of arms, and a shield of arms, with cherubs holding cartouches of arms at the angles. Late 16th-century niches with trefoiled heads are located in the east wall of the chancel. A 15th-century piscina with a plain four-centred head is also present.