Church of St Mary and St Nicholas

This is the Church of St Mary and St Nicholas. The church incorporates a 13th-century tower, with significant rebuilding in the 1850s for the nave and chancel, and a 1905 north aisle. The main rebuilding was undertaken by William Brown of Reading, with the north aisle designed by J.O. Scott. The construction is primarily flint with Bath stone dressings to the tower, and knapped flint with Bath stone dressings elsewhere. The roofs are tiled.

The church comprises a nave, chancel, tower, north aisle, vestry, and south porch. The nave and chancel feature a plinth, buttresses, and gable parapets, while the tower has a plinth, angle buttresses, and crenellated parapet.

The south elevation features the tower to the left, with a two-light louvre in the top stage and a two-light plate traceried window. To the centre is the nave with lancet windows and a south porch with a moulded and chamfered two-centred arched opening. To the right is the chancel, with a central doorway of two-centred arch on quarter columns under a drip mould, flanked by cusped ogee headed single-light windows.

The west elevation shows the north aisle, gabled with a three-light window, and the tower with a two-light louvre at the top and a three-light Perpendicular window featuring cusped heads to the lights, above a doorway of four-centred arch under a square drip mould with carved heads at the springing and scutcheons in the spandrels.

The interior is plastered. The nave has a four-bay arch braced collar roof, with an arcade to the north aisle formed of two-centred arches on moulded, chamfered octagonal columns with undercut caps. The chancel features a three-bay scissor truss roof, a re-set piscina with a trefoiled ogee arch on the south wall, and a re-set Easter sepulchre with quatrefoil carving under a four-centred arch on the north wall. The chancel arch is a two-centred moulded and chamfered arch on thin half-columns with undercut caps. The north aisle has a four-bay barrel vaulted timber roof.

Notable fittings include a carved and painted timber reredos and linenfold panelling by Nathaniel Westlake, a late 18th-century hexagonal timber pulpit with carved flowers and fruit around raised and fielded panels, and a font at the west end of the north aisle, which comprises a plain stone tub with a 15th-century carved timber cover.

The church also contains a re-set brass, by the pulpit, depicting a man and woman of circa 1500, inscribed to "Richard Pygott and Alys his wyf," and a 18th-century marble obelisk with an urn on a moulded base, inscribed to the Puckridge family, on the south wall.