Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church primarily built in the late 15th century, with earlier elements. It features coursed flint and a lead roof. The structure includes an 11th-century round west tower, a continuous nave and chancel intersected by north and south transepts, and a south porch, all dating from the 15th century.

The tower is constructed of coursed flint and has a 15th-century round embattled parapet with flushwork, along with a lancet window on the west side and two-light Decorated bell openings. The nave has iron conglomerate in the west quoins and wall, diagonal buttresses with stone dressings, and the north and south walls are made of coursed galletted flint with some conglomerate courses. It features four-light Perpendicular windows under pointed segmental heads, with ogee-headed lights and panel tracery, and hollow chamfered mullions. There are two windows each on the north and south sides of the nave, one each on the north and south transepts, and similar three-light Perpendicular windows to the east of the transepts. The north doorway is chamfered.

The chancel has part rendered walls and includes a screen stair turret to the north-west. It features a 13th-century east window with four lights of intersecting tracery, which has been renewed, along with two-light windows with Geometric and Decorated tracery—one to the north and two to the south. The south side has a priest's door with a pointed chamfered arch. The south porch is made of coursed galletted flint, with diagonal buttresses and a lead roof, featuring round shafts to the moulded arch. The south doorway has a chamfered arch with a renewed moulded upper part and a part marble stoup to the right. Crosses are present on the gable ends of the chancel, north and south transepts, and the porch.

Inside, the church has an arch-braced roof with a vaulted crossing at the transepts, featuring double purlins, moulded principal rafters, and a ridge piece, with rose bosses at the intersections. Stone angel corbels support the arch braces at the crossing, and the principal rafters in the nave and chancel have alternating angels and shields as corbels. The 13th-century octagonal font is made of Purbeck marble and is supported by eight marble columns, with blank arcading on the faces. There is an ogee-headed trefoil to the piscina. The north windows contain 15th-century glass depicting saints, apostles, and kings in tracery.