Church Of St Mary The Virgin

Parish church. The nave and aisles date from the 14th century. The west tower was begun in the Perpendicular style, but left unfinished at the Dissolution, with numerous bequests recorded between 1481 and 1533. The chancel was rebuilt in 1827. The church has undergone several 19th-century restorations: the nave and aisles in 1854, the font in 1864, the south porch was rebuilt and new floors inserted, and aisle windows restored in 1872, and the chancel roof was renewed and raised, the nave roof restored, and a vestry erected in 1886. The building is constructed from flint with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The aisles have leaded windows.

The squat, two-story tower has angle buttresses. It features a three-light Perpendicular west window below an older fragment of arch. The belfry openings are louvred, originally intended as a ringing chamber stage. The tower has a brick parapet. Angle buttresses to the nave aisles are stepped on the flanks. The gabled south porch has diagonal buttresses constructed from knapped flint, with a two-light Perpendicular side window. A double wave moulded entrance arch sits below a wall sundial dated 1801. Four 19th-century three-light Perpendicular south aisle windows and four 2-light north aisle windows, with Y tracery, are also present, as is an arched north door. The clerestory has four circular windows with cusping. On the south side, each window is separated by flushwork tracery. The chancel has angle buttresses to the east and paired stepped buttresses to the sides. It includes two three-light reticulated south windows and a similar east window.

Inside, there is a five-bay octagonal arcade on moulded bases, with moulded polygonal capitals supporting double chamfered arches. A tall chamfered tower arch has polygonal responds, capitals, and bases, with keeled rolls on the east side. The chancel arch is double wave moulded on polygonal responds, with capitals and bases. The nave has a scissor braced 19th-century roof, and the aisle roofs are also 19th-century. Deep splays feature in the clerestory windows. A fine late 15th-century octagonal font sits on three steps, with the upper two traceried. The foot of the font stem includes a foliage trail, and figures of prophets and saints are on pedestals under ribbed canopies. The bowl panels depict the Baptism of Christ (to the west) and the Holy Trinity (to the east), with the remainder showing the twelve apostles. A remains of an elaborate Holy water stoup is adjacent to the south door. A Chapel of St. John the Baptist is in the south-east corner. There are bench sedilia, an angle piscina with cinquefoil cusping, and an aumbry. Remains of a rood stair are found in the north chancel arch pier. A 19th-century chancel roof is present. An altar tomb is located against the south-east chancel corner, dedicated to Katherine Catfield of 1718. It is a two-bay tomb chest with splayed columns and pilasters, each bay carved with high relief cherub. The inscription panel is flanked by Corinthian pilasters below a segmental pediment and achievement.