Church Of St Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a medieval parish church located on Battisford Church Road. It features a nave, chancel, west bell turret, south porch, north chapel, and north vestry. The building is constructed from random flint rubble, with plaster on the south and east sides, and has plaintiled roofs, although the north roof has been renewed in concrete plaintiles, while the chapel roof is leaded.

The side windows are deeply splayed and likely remodelled from 12th-century originals, and there is a narrow square-jambed west doorway that is blocked and may also date from the 12th century. Inside the chapel, there is an early 14th-century window with grotesque corbels, while other windows from the mid-14th century feature Y- and dagger-tracery. There are plain doorways from the 14th century to the north and south, with the southern doorway having an original or early door and a simple porch. The porch threshold includes two carved gargoyles that likely come from a tower.

The bell turret, made of late 18th-century brick and flint, may occupy the site of a medieval tower. The chancel arch is from the 14th century and features shafts and an image stool with a carved angel on the south side. The vestry contains a 15th-century window. The church has a notable crownpost roof from the late 14th century or around 1400, consisting of four bays with arch-braced cambered tiebeams, octagonal crownposts with moulded capitals, and thick four-way braces.

At the west end, there is a wide late 18th-century balcony. A mid-14th-century octagonal limestone font features varied window tracery on the bowl and a moulded stem. The church also includes a mid-18th-century polygonal oak pulpit with panelled faces, supported by a pillar. In the nave, a marble floor slab from the 16th century has indents for brasses, and there are marble wall monuments for Walter Rust (1685), John Lewis (1724), and Edward Salten (1724).