Church Of St Ethelbert

The Church of St Ethelbert is a parish church that dates back to the medieval period. It is constructed from flint with stone and brick dressings and features a pantile roof. The church includes a west tower, nave, south porch, chancel, and vestry. The embattled tower has two stages and is supported by diagonal buttresses on the west side. The west window consists of three lights with cusped intersecting tracery, and there are square traceried openings for the ringing chamber. The tower also has two-light cusped ogee headed bell-openings and a plain parapet, along with an external stair turret on the northeast.

The nave is buttressed and has three bays, with a masonry cross in the first southern bay. There are two 2-light cusped Y-tracery windows on the south side from the early 14th century, and one similar window on the north side. The north door is now blocked and features a hood mould, alongside a square-headed late medieval 2-light window. The clerestorey wall is set back just above the nave windows on both the north and south sides, but there is no evidence of aisles below. The nave buttresses have 16th-century brick quoins, and there is a small remnant of a buttress on the north side of the second nave bay. The clerestorey windows are also of two lights with cusped designs.

The chancel has two bays and diagonal buttresses, with two 2-light windows on the south side—one is an early 14th-century window with cusped Y-tracery, and the other is from the Perpendicular style. There is a priest's door on the south side, and a 19th-century vestry is located to the north. The east window, also from the 19th century, features three lights with cusped intersecting tracery.

The unbuttressed south porch has cusped single-light windows on the east and west sides under hood moulds. The porch doorway includes attached shafts, polygonal abaci, and an outer order of continuous moulding, along with a hood mould. The porch roof is arch-braced. The nave doorway has a hood mould with figure stops.

Inside, the church features an arch-braced roof with plain ashlaring, a rood stair, and a tall, narrow opening to the tower with attached shafts. The chancel arch is supported by polygonal shafts, and the chancel roof is from the 19th century. There are some 15th-century poppy-head bench-ends and a 15th-century octagonal font with shields on the bowl.