Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a medieval parish church, extensively restored in 1881. It is constructed primarily of uncoursed broken flint and erratics, with stone dressings and a plain tile roof. The church comprises a west tower, a combined nave and chancel, a north aisle, and a south porch dating to around 1918.

The unbuttressed west tower rises in two and a half stages. It features a three-light Perpendicular west window below a stone inscription "PC TW". Above this, a short stage contains some 16th-century brickwork and small, blocked lancet windows. The bell stage, dated 1895, has embattled parapets and bell openings in the Gothic style with cusped Y tracery. A short, polygonal turret projects from the north-east side, constructed primarily of galleted flint with 16th-century brick dressings in its upper section.

The south facade has three buttresses, a 19th-century lancet window at the centre, and a chancel window with a 19th-century trefoil head. The east chancel has a raised gable, areas where brickwork has tumbled in from a former gable, and a 1882 three-light east window, featuring large foliage stops to the central light.

The north aisle, dating to the 13th century, has a shallow-angled felt roof with parapets. It contains two lancet windows, a plain chamfered doorway (renewed in 1881) and a plain two-light west window. The east window has three plain lights with asymmetrical heads on the outer lights.

The south porch was built as a memorial to J.H. Steward, who died in 1915. It is constructed of uncoursed flint with a gable cross and Steward's arms carved in stone. The C14 style arch has sideshafts, and the returns have single and paired small lancet windows respectively.

The interior features ashlar walls and an arch-braced collar roof. A stone stoup is located within the south doorway to the east. The 14th-century south doorway has continuous moulding and a hood mould with stops depicting a king and queen. A three-bay nave arcade, with a narrower western arch, consists of double chamfered arches on round yellow limestone piers (constructed in 1881). An octagonal font sits on a 15th-century octagonal plinth with trefoil-headed panels. A tall 15th-century tower arch is built of brick with semi-circular jambs, rendered except for the quadruple chamfered four-centred arch. A marble slab with an indent for a brass commemorates a civilian (died 1481), and a marble mural monument dated 1722 is located in the north chancel. The church's roof and fittings date to the 1881 restoration.