Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St. Thomas is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is built of flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, featuring slate and pantile roofs. The church has a western tower, an aisleless nave with a south porch, and a chancel. The 14th-century western tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a rectangular projecting stair turret to the south with small quatrefoil windows. The west window, added in the 19th century, is a two-light plate-traceried design. The tower includes 14th-century two-light bell-openings with very low transoms, filled with knapped flint, and is topped with a crenellated parapet that once had tall corner pinnacles. The buttressed nave has four three-light panel-traceried Perpendicular windows. The south doorway, dating from the 14th century, features dying mouldings and carved label stops, while the plain north door is simpler. The chancel, which is from the 13th century, has three lancets and a three-light Y-traceried east window, along with a later two-light panel-traceried window to the south and a priest's door.

Inside, the tower and chancel arches are plain chamfered with polygonal responds. There is a simple cusped piscina in the chancel and a damaged 16th-century chancel screen with four fine painted dado panels. The church features a double-decker pulpit with a 17th-century clerk's desk and a pulpit box that is likely Victorian. There are five box pews to the east and ten crudely carved poppy-head bench ends, probably from the 16th century. The 14th-century octagonal font has quatrefoil panels, and there is an early 19th-century western gallery and a 17th-century communion rail. The medieval south door has fielded vertical panels and cover strips, and fragments of medieval stained glass can be found in the north-west nave window.