Church Of St Mary Magdalene

The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a parish church dating back to the 12th century and featuring later additions. It is constructed mainly of rendered carstone with a slate roof, though the west tower is of uncoursed flint with brick, tile, and limestone.

The west tower has four stepped diagonal buttresses, a chequerwork plinth, a two-light west window featuring panel tracery and a rendered brick mullion, a reset gargoyle, a small trefoil-headed light with a hood mould, a string course to the bell stage, two-light bell openings with reticulated tracery, and an embattled parapet with flint chequerwork and large gargoyles to the south, west and north.

The south nave is of rendered carstone, with three-light openings with cusped ogee heads under square heads, and a small 12th-century semi-circular headed lancet to the left of the porch. The gabled porch is rendered and has a chamfered arch with polygonal jambs. The south doorway is double chamfered and has a deeply undercut hood mould. The chancel is of carstone rubble with stone dressings, featuring a priest's door, a two-light opening under a quatrefoil to the right, and a tall two-light opening to the left with panel tracery under a four-centred arch. The east window has a narrow three-light opening with renewed Decorated tracery.

The north nave is of rendered carstone, while the north chancel is of carstone and limestone rubble with galletted carstone blocks to the upper eaves courses. Four lancets are present on the north side. A double hollow chamfered north doorway has a renewed head, and a stoup recess is located to the left.

Inside, a 12-bay roof from 1850 spans the nave, divided into 8 bays with arched braces, while the chancel has a four-bay roof with scissor braces. The central four bays of the nave have thicker 12th-century walls, raised north and south, which incorporate fragments of 12th-century interlaced arcading with semi-circular headed arches rising from shafts with cushion capitals. A south nave window has a reset detached column with a cushion capital at its base and a moulded segmental rear arch. A grotesque corbel is set below the sill of the third lancet from the east. A large, tall piscina with a plain trefoil head is also present. A plain octagonal font sits on a fat octagonal stem, with deeply undercut mouldings to the base of the bowl and the stem. A plain tower arch completes the interior features.