Church of St. Edmund

The Church of St. Edmund is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with significant enlargement occurring in the 14th century. It comprises a west tower, a nave, a chancel, and a sanctuary. The building was restored in 1855 and again in 1927 (specifically the chancel). It is constructed primarily from quaternary and quarry flint and chert, with dressings of Lincolnshire Limestone ashlar and some brick. The roofs are thatched.

The west tower is three-stage and circular, featuring a small, vertical lancet window on its west side. The ringing chamber has a wide, brick-lined pointed lancet, and the belfry windows are louvred, with a two-light window to the west incorporating a vesica. The tower is topped with a plain brick parapet. A gabled porch, built in 1855, is located on the south side of the nave, mirrored by a gabled north vestry also constructed in 1855. The nave has three two-light windows from the 14th century, each light trefoiled and featuring a pointed quatrefoil vesica. A large, sloping brick buttress is attached to the east end of the north nave wall. The chancel is small and terminates in a round apse with two flat buttresses at its east end, flanked by three slit lights. The chancel windows are two C15 two-light windows under square heads.

Inside, the south door is double wave moulded. An arched doorway provides access to the tower. A Norman-style font of 1855 (a copy of the one at Hartland, Devon) is present. The nave features a boarded, scissor-braced roof. A large 14th-century painting of St. Christopher is on the north nave wall, and a painting of St. John the Baptist, also from the 14th century, is on the south-east window jamb. The church retains a plain but intact early 17th-century triple-decker pulpit. A mid-14th-century screen with three ogeed bays on each side of a central opening divides the chancel. It features C19 circular shafts, a plain plank dado, and a frieze of geometric roundels below the top rail. The quadruple chamfered chancel arch, somewhat stilted, leads into a barrel-vaulted chancel, which is separated from the apsidal sanctuary by a flat arch on pilasters. Early 14th-century stalls stand within the chancel. The chancel arch retains scroll paintings and other non-figurative decoration, repainted in 1927 in a 12th-century style. The groin-vaulted sanctuary contains substantial remains of 12th-century animal and figurative wall paintings. A central splayed lancet is flanked by single order shafts on bases with scalloped capitals and has a zig-zag arch. The remaining two lancets have similar surrounds added in 1855. A rare pillar piscina is found in the sanctuary, featuring a moulded base but a C19 bowl.