Church Of St Botolph

The Church of St Botolph is a medieval parish church. It is largely constructed of flint with brick repairs and stone dressings, and has a lead roof. The church includes a west tower, a nave, north and south aisles, and a south porch.

The embattled four-stage west tower has diagonal buttresses and flushwork detailing to the base and buttresses. A west door features shields in the spandrels, above which the walling changes from flint rubble to knapped flint. The tower has a transomed west window of three lights with panel tracery, square ringing-chamber openings with tracery, two-light bell openings with panel tracery, gargoyles, and flushwork to the battlements. An external stair leads from the south east corner, with cruciform and cusped lights.

The nave is three bays wide. The south aisle has two massive triangular brick buttresses, likely of the 18th century, and a diagonal buttress. It contains a 19th-century three-light Perpendicular window, a three-light window with panel tracery, and an extension forming a side chapel with a three-light 19th-century window. The north aisle includes a door to the first bay, a restored 19th-century three-light Perpendicular window, and a three-light window with panel tracery. The clerestory features two 20th-century two-light windows per bay, constructed with alternating brick and flint voussoirs.

The two-bay buttressed chancel has a single-light window and a two-light Decorated window to the north, a 19th-century cusped Y-tracery window and a priest's door to the south, and a four-light 19th-century east window with reticulated tracery.

The south porch is buttressed with a parapet gable. Inside the porch are two recesses on the east and west walls, containing freestanding square shafts with chamfered fronts, polygonal abaci, and bases. The doorway to the nave has continuous roll and fillet moulding and figure stops to the hood mould.

The interior features a 14th-century arcade with clustered shafts and fillets in the angles, and a hammerbeam roof with figures, traceried ashlaring, tracery in the spandrels, and wall-posts supported on embattled corbels. The roof also has bosses and arch-braced aisle roofs. A tall tower arch has an attached shaft. The chancel arch was dismantled and being rebuilt in 1986. The chancel has an arch-braced roof. The south chapel features a four-centred arch to the chancel. A wall-painting is on the north nave wall. Medieval painted glass is assembled in the north and south aisle windows, dated 1977. The church contains some box pews, along with other 19th-century fittings. There is an octagonal font and an 18th-century font cover with slight Tuscan columns, an ogee arched top, and a ball finial.