Church Of St Ethelbert

The Church of St Ethelbert is a parish church located in Roudham Larling, dating from the 12th, 14th, and 15th centuries. It is constructed of flint with ashlar quoins and features a tiled roof. The church consists of a south aisle, nave, chancel, and a west tower. The south aisle is from the 14th century and includes angle buttresses with gablets, as well as parapets at the gable ends that have fragments of crosses at the ridge. A continuous string course is interrupted by the porch. The west and south windows have 2-light lozenge tracery, while the east window has 3 lights with cusped intersecting ogee designs. The chancel features two 2-light Y windows on the north and south sides, and there is a priest's door in the south wall. The east window from the 19th century is in a late Geometric style.

The north wall of the nave, which has no aisle, is supported by four buttresses with one set-off, two of which are incorporated into a 19th-century vestry. There are two notable 2-light Perpendicular windows with hood moulds. The tower has four stages, angle buttresses, and flushwork, with two lower set-offs and a staircase on the north-west side that includes slit lights. The belfry features elaborate 2-light Perpendicular windows on all sides, all dating from the 15th century. The south porch was rebuilt in 1898.

The south door, dating from the 12th century, is of very high quality, featuring two orders of shafts with diamond stud and scroll-twist decoration, billet studding between the shafts, foliated rings, volute capitals, and two arch rolls with an elaborate billet and diamond frieze. Inside, the church has a three-bay arcade leading to the south aisle, supported by octagonal piers on bell-moulded bases and moulded capitals, with double chamfered arches. There is a piscina and sedilia in the aisle from the 14th century, as well as a similar double sedilia in the chancel. The font is a square block style from the 14th century, and the church has a timber roof throughout from the 19th century.