Church Of St Botolph

The Church of St. Botolph is a parish church dating back to the medieval period. The chancel was restored in 1874, and the nave re-floored and re-seated in 1886. The church comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, and south porch.

The church is largely constructed of flint rubble, originally plastered, with stone dressings; the tower incorporates a significant amount of brick, featuring brick quoins and window openings. A continuous thatched roof covers the structure. The square, unbuttressed west tower, likely built in the 15th century, has a lancet window on its west side and single-light belfry openings. A later crenellated parapet tops the tower. A quoin on the north-east side of the nave is made of field stones, suggesting the nave fabric may be 11th century or earlier, and that the nave has been heightened and extended westward. A good 12th-century south nave doorway is present, featuring colonnettes to the jambs and three decorative orders to the arch, including chevrons and large nailheads. A simpler 13th-century north doorway is also present, alongside a renewed lancet window built with brick. Other nave windows are from the 15th century, with square heads. The 14th-century south porch has original side windows and a facade of knapped flint, with the gable rebuilt in brick using a lozenge pattern flushwork, probably in the 18th century.

The chancel is two bays; the lower walls likely date to the 12th century, with the remainder rebuilt in the 14th century. It features two-light windows, largely renewed, and a three-light window with reticulated tracery, renewed in the 19th century.

Inside, there is no chancel arch. The nave has a four-bay arch-braced roof, likely from the 15th century; the rafters are ceiled over. The wall posts rest on original wooden corbels carved as heads. The easternmost bay of the roof has a crenellated wallplate. A restored piscina with a cusped ogee arch is present in the chancel, along with an adjacent drop-sill sedilia. A well-preserved early 15th-century octagonal font features a bowl carved alternately with angels bearing shields and with lions; beneath the bowl are heads with headdresses. On the north wall of the nave are three painted biblical texts within circular panels, reportedly dating to the late 17th century, with a fourth panel in the chancel. There are also extensive 14th-century murals on the north and south chancel walls, depicting scenes from the life of Christ. Two late 18th- and early 19th-century wall monuments belong to members of the Farr family, and a hatchment is positioned above the north door of the nave.