Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church that dates back to the medieval period, with restorations carried out in 1832 and the late 19th century. The structure includes a nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, and a north vestry that was originally built as a schoolroom. The church is constructed from flint rubble, with some coursed work on the nave and chancel. The nave has been heightened using red brick, and it features stone dressings. The nave has a slated roof, while the chancel has a plain-tiled roof.

The 15th-century tower has three-stage diagonal buttresses on the west face and a flat parapet, both adorned with flushwork decoration. It includes a restored two-light west window and two-light openings in the bell chamber, although the tracery is missing from the west and north openings. The late 12th-century nave has been heightened and re-fenestrated in the 15th century, featuring two-light windows—three on the south side and two on the north.

The fine 15th-century porch is made of knapped flint and has panelled flushwork on the plinth and lower facade. It boasts a moulded entrance arch with carved spandrels and three empty canopied niches above, along with a stone parapet enriched with flushwork and original side openings. The late 12th-century nave doorway features one order of shafting, capitals with upright leaves, and a semi-circular roll-moulded arch.

The early 14th-century chancel has renewed lancet windows on the north and south sides, a 19th-century Priest's doorway, and a renewed three-light east window with intersecting tracery. The fabric of the east chancel wall contains two former 12th-century windows, which may have been taken from the nave. The chancel roof was replaced in 1832, and the nave roof has been plastered over. Inside, there is a 13th-century Purbeck marble font bowl on a modern base and a cinquefoil-headed piscina in the south sanctuary. The royal arms of Anne are displayed on the north nave wall, below which are painted copies of the Lord's Prayer, Commandments, and Creed. The church is graded II* for its medieval fabric.