Church Of St Withburga

The Church of St Withburga, a parish church, is noted for its unique dedication. The building features a 13th-century tower on the south side and the western part of the south aisle, but it was extensively rebuilt in 1767 and again in 1868-1869 by James K Colling. It is constructed of flint with limestone dressings and has plain tiled roofs over the nave and chancel. The tower includes flushwork panels in its parapets, charnel, and aisles, with set-back buttresses reaching the first stage. There are two early 13th-century lancet windows and bell openings with 'Y' tracery, likely rebuilt during the 19th-century works. The south door in the tower, dating from the 19th century, has a double opening and quatrefoiled spandrel. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet and corner pinnacles. The south aisle features a 13th-century west window and a 14th-century two-light window. The north and south chancel aisle windows are in the Perpendicular style, while a 19th-century west window has three lights with a Decorated door below, and the east window has five lights, with all other windows dating from the 19th-century restoration.

Inside, there are four bay arcades supported by octagonal piers, likely from the late 14th century, and quatrefoil piers in the two easternmost bays. A chapel with a parclose screen is located at the east end of the north aisle. The roofs feature 19th-century arch-braced collars with short wall posts on corbels. At the west end of the nave, there are coffin lids from the 11th century set into the floor. Two early 17th-century monuments by Nicholas Stone and Robert Pook commemorate Miles Armiger from 1639, featuring a kneeling alabaster figure on the south well of the south chapel, and John and Muriel Cook with their family, depicted with three pairs of kneeling figures on the east wall of the south chapel. Additionally, there is a fine alabaster reclining figure on a tomb chest by Boehm dedicated to Juliana, Countess of Leicester, who died in 1870.