Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St. Lawrence is a medieval parish church constructed from coursed flint with a lead roof. It features a west tower, nave, chancel, south chapel, and south porch. The tower has diagonal buttresses with flushwork, an embattled parapet also with flushwork, and gargoyles on the north and south sides. The west window has been renewed and consists of two cusped lights beneath a multicusped quatrefoil, with a small stone Celtic cross positioned above. The bell openings are formed by two ogee-headed lights under a quatrefoil, although the central mullions for the west and south windows are missing.

The south porch is made of galletted flint and has a pantile roof. It includes flushwork on the diagonal buttresses and a moulded porch arch with three orders, featuring slender shafts at the front and rear. The pointed south doorway is adorned with a roll moulded hood mould. There is a blocked round-headed window from the 11th century that is splayed outwards to the south nave.

The south chapel, dating from the 15th century, is constructed with galletted courses of knapped flints alternating with whole iron-stained flints. It has windows with ogee-headed lights and panel tracery beneath pointed segmental arches, with four lights to the south, two to the west, and three to the east. A gargoyle is present on the east wall. The chancel has been renewed and is made of pebble flint, featuring a 19th-century east window with three lancets, external shafts, and flowing tracery. The north nave wall has four stepped buttresses made of brick and rendered coursed flint. The north doorway has a continuous hollow chamfer with label stops shaped like devil's heads, and it includes one window with 'Y' tracery and another two-light window with panel tracery.

Inside, the church has an open rafter roof with renewed shaped wall braces, while the south chapel features 15th-century moulded roof beams. The pointed chancel arch has two hollow chamfers and ogee moulding around the shafts. The north nave wall displays roll moulding and hollow chamfers on a three-light window, along with a small vaulted niche across the arris of the window splay. The font is plain and octagonal, resting on an octagonal stem with a moulded base and cap. Notable interior features include large black marble ledger slabs commemorating Edmund Britiffe and his wife from 1726, and another slab with an achievement for Edmund Britiffe from 1770, who was the Paymaster of his Majesty's Exchequer bills, along with his sister.