Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating to circa 1220, with additions made shortly after, and significant restoration in circa 1862. The church is constructed of flint rubble with stone dressings, featuring red plain tiled roofs with pierced ridge tiles. A west bell turret is weatherboarded and topped with a shingled broach spire and weathercock.

The chancel has two-stage buttresses with stone capping, an east window comprising three 19th or 20th century lancets in pointed arched heads. A modern lancet window and arch to the organ chamber are present in the north wall, the former with re-cut stone splays. The south wall features a 15th century window of two cinquefoil lights with a square head and moulded label. An arcade of two bays extends into the nave; there is no chancel arch. The chancel roof is composed of seven cants and is plastered and painted.

The South Chapel, dating to the mid-13th century, contains an original lancet window under a wide pointed wall arch in its east wall. Three lancets and one window in the west wall are all modern, although the stone splays may have been re-cut. It has moulded wall plates to a six-cant roof.

The Nave has two 19th century two-light windows in the north wall, a 19th century doorway, and a blocked 13th century north doorway with chamfered jambs and a two-centred arch. The south wall contains a 19th or 20th century two-light window with a two-centred head, and a 19th or 20th century doorway with a moulded label and face stops, and a vertically boarded door with four ornate hinges. The nave roof has seven cants with 19th century boarding.

The porch features a crossquadrate crownpost, collared rafters, and stop-chamfered tie beams on flint walls. The bell turret stands on four chamfered posts with tie beams, curved braces, and diagonal struts.

Interior features include a font on a plain shaft with a moulded base and cushion bowl, a hatchment on the north wall, and communion rails with square posts, flat, pierced, moulded, and diminishing 17th-century balusters. Floor slabs in the chancel commemorate members of the Luther and Lowe families from the 17th and 18th centuries. Monuments are dedicated to members of the Smith family, Henry Soames, Grace Adalson, and Charlotte Tupper. A stone pulpit features two two-centre arches on each face.