Church Of St Ethelbert

The Church of St Ethelbert is a parish church featuring a 15th-century tower and a 14th-century nave that was restored in the early 19th century, along with a south porch. The porch retains its original stone quoins and most of its moulded 14th-century entrance arch, though it was converted to a vestry in the late 19th century. A late 19th-century semi-octagonal brick apse was added to the south end of the nave, while the former chancel was demolished in the 17th or 18th century. The church has a plain tiled roof with brick facing and stone dressings.

The tower is three stages high, battlemented, and constructed of random flint with flushwork and string courses at each stage. It features diagonal buttresses on the west front and angled buttresses on the east. The west door has a pointed, moulded arch decorated with fleurons and is topped with shields representing the Earl of Warwick and the Mowbray family from 1428 to 1471. Above the west doorway is a 19th-century window in a decorated style, and the belfry has restored 19th-century louvred windows. The nave walls are likely made of septaria encased in gault brick.

Inside, the church features a restored 14th-century single-hammer beam and arched braced roof, with angels at the bases of the wall posts. The hammer beams end with crowned figures holding shields. The 15th-century font has an octagonal bowl and eight panels carved with emblems of the four Evangelists, alternating with angels and other figures bearing shields. The apse includes a reredos with a carved centerpiece that was once the front of a chest. The tower houses four bells, two of which were cast by T. Darbie of Ipswich in 1666 and two by T. Gardiner of Sudbury in 1728. The church is graded II* for its tower.