Church Of St Mark

The Church of St Mark is a parish church built in 1852, designed by G.H. Lewis of Linden and Lewis, in an Early English style. The original nave was extended over the following decades with additions by the same architect around 1862, incorporating a clergy and choir vestry to the south-west corner and a western gallery. Further additions followed in 1863 (a short south aisle), 1864 (a north aisle), 1868 (extension to the south aisle), 1869 (a chancel with a polygonal apse), 1884 (a north-east porch), and 1890 (new clergy and choir vestries, reroofing of the north aisle, and a baptistery and south porch).

The church is constructed largely of Kentish ragstone with buff limestone dressings, and has a slate roof. It features a nave of six bays with a bellcote at the west end, and a chancel with a polygonal apse marked by trefoil-headed lancet windows. The clerestory has three gabled triple windows on each side. The north aisle has three bays and two paired trefoil-headed lancets, while the south aisle has five lancets and one trefoil window, along with an attached, flat-roofed, cement-rendered vestry.

Inside, the nave displays an arcade of squat columns with arches featuring dying mouldings, and a cross-braced roof with two tiers of purlins. There's a late 19th-century pulpit and pews. The west window contains stained glass from around 1893 by James Powell and Sons, depicting St Michael, St Gabriel and St Raphael, along with a trefoil of lion’s heads and St Mark above, also by the same artist. The north aisle has an arch-braced roof with two tiers of purlins, and a bronze lectern. The baptistery, dating from 1890, includes an elaborate font with gilded ironwork, three stained glass windows in the southern wall likely by A.C. Hemming, and five canvases depicting scenes of Christian Baptism, potentially painted by Rupert Corbould who worked with A.C. Hemming. The south aisle contains stained glass depicting The Good Shepherd by Henry Holiday, one window reproducing Holman Hunt’s "The Light of the World", and a Madonna by an unknown artist. A chancel arch and low ironwork screen lead to the chancel, which contains pews, an organ, Minton tiles on the floor, and stained glass windows from around 1883 by Arthur O'Connor, depicting Christ teaching, the Crucifixion, and the Assumption.