Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church containing fragments from the 12th century, with significant remodelling in the 14th and 15th centuries, and a 17th-century west tower. It is constructed of flint with red brick and limestone dressings, and has roofs of slate.

The west tower is square, built of flint with red brick dressings; a datestone on the south side reads “1674, THOMAS THETFORD, WORKEMAN.” Other inscribed tablets on the south wall are now indecipherable. Diagonal buttresses are present on the west side, featuring brick dressings and stone weatherings. The tower has elliptical-arched bell openings in double chamfered brick reveals above a moulded string course, topped by an embattled parapet with roll-moulded coping. A 19th-century two-light window sits under a hood mould with decorative stops. A brick relieving arch covers the window opening, alongside a small, eroded stone panel with an arched niche carving.

The south porch has diagonal gable-buttresses, largely repaired in brick, with single-light, east and west windows featuring cusped heads and glass by Yarrington of Yarmouth. The 14th-century south aisle has two-light windows, bays separated by massive brick buttresses. An early 18th-century gauged red brick surround with a segmental pediment and moulded brick consoles flanks one window, containing slate memorial slabs to W. Hood, died 1717, and Elizabeth Hood, died 1705. The easternmost bay of the aisle contains a two-light Decorated window. Adjacent to this is a doorway from the early 16th century, with a four-centred arched head and a quadrant moulded square-headed architrave, built of red brick. A stone-dressed diagonal buttress is found at the south-east corner of the aisle.

The nave clerestory has three bays with two-light windows featuring 'Y' tracery within rendered brick. The east wall of the nave has a coped parapeted gable. A two-light Decorated window is located in the south wall of the chancel. The 15th-century east window is three-light, with a parapeted east gable and cross finial. The north wall of the chancel contains one 12th-century doublesplayed window and another two-light window with 'Y' tracery. Two 14th-century nave windows are on the north side, one with ‘Y’ tracery, and bays are separated by large brick buttresses. A blocked north doorway has double chamfered arches. The nave roof is simple, with arch-braced principals and a ridge, as well as quadrant moulded tie beams. The aisle roof is arch-braced with traceried spandrels. The chancel features a boarded ceiling with plaster coving. A screen from 1505 incorporates twelve painted figures at its base, with the upper section heavily rendered and restored. Roof stairs are built into the north wall of the nave. An arched opening leads from the chancel to a south-east chapel. A 14th-century piscina and dropped cill sedilia are set into the south wall of the chancel. There is a memorial brass to Margaret Aldriche, dated 1525, and a wall monument to Humphrey Rant, dated 1661, which features a cartouche with a convex inscription tablet. A square font with arched panels, on a plain stem and corner shafts, is likely of 14th-century origin.