Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a 13th-century church, originally serving as the "Capella extra portas" for the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary. It has undergone alterations in the 14th, 17th, and 19th centuries. The structure is built of flint rubble with limestone and clunch dressings, and has a red plain tiled roof with some original 13th-century tiles on the chancel roof. The nave, dating to around 1220, has a south external string course. Four splayed lancet windows are located on the north wall, with a pointed north doorway featuring a semi-circular rear arch. The south wall incorporates four splayed lancets, a piscina below the eastern window, and a south door with pointed head, chamfered jambs, moulded label and semi-circular rear arch. Three splayed lancets are found on the west wall.

The 14th-century chancel features an east window of five lights with tracery in a two-centred head and moulded internal and external labels with head stops. Moulded jambs and mullions are present, along with shafts with moulded capitals and bases within the splays. Diagonal buttresses and a truncated gable with a gable cross are also on the east wall, which is faced with alternating flint and stone chequerwork below the east window. Internally, a moulded string serves as a label to the sedilia. The north window has three lights and the south window has two lights, both mirroring the design of the east window. A 19th-century north vestry and a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered south porch are also part of the church.

The chancel roof is 14th century, consisting of seven cants with a plastered soffit. The late 15th-century nave roof includes framed side purlins, formerly arch-braced to collar, with moulded wall plates and one embattled tie beam. An 18th-century bell turret is situated at the east end. Notable memorial brasses commemorate individuals from 1340 to 1590. A 13th-century locker with a two-centred head is visible in the south wall of the nave. Monuments from the 17th and early 18th centuries are also present. Two cinquefoil-headed niches with gabled, crocketed and finialed labels, and pinnacles with carved crockets and finials are found in the chancel. The nave retains some 13th-century wall paintings on its north and south walls. A 13th-century piscina in the chancel features moulded and shaped jambs, capitals, bases and a traceried head with a moulded label and mask stops; a similar piscina in the nave has moulded, shafted jambs with square abaci, foliated on the inner side. An 18th-century pulpit with a canopy completes the interior features.