Church Of St Laurence

The Church of St Laurence is a 12th-century church with an approximately 1220 apse, and was restored with additions in the late 19th century. It is built of rendered material with stone dressings and has tile roofs, with a parapeted nave roof to the east. A shingled bellcote sits on the east ridge, featuring a pyramidal cap with a lead finial and weathervane, and two ogee-headed louvred openings on each face, each accompanied by a small quatrefoil.

The church comprises a nave, a polygonal apse, a south porch, and a north vestry. The south side of the nave has two central 2-light 19th-century windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds with carved stops, and a 13th-century lancet window with chamfered reveals. A 12th-century doorway is positioned to the left, featuring two orders of decoration including chevron and chain, topped with a head of Christ. The doorway has a 19th-century boarded door. A 19th-century gabled porch of red brick with a tile roof, wavy-edged bargeboards, and 20th-century wrought iron gates stands on the south side. The north side of the nave has a 13th-century lancet window with chamfered reveals, and two central 2-light 19th-century windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds with carved stops. The west end has diagonal buttresses and a plinth. Three stepped lancets sit above a cill string and drip mould. The apse is polygonal, with five sides and detailing including a plinth, string, cill string, and a lancet window on each face with chamfered reveals. The 19th-century vestry is built of flint with stone dressings, a plinth, and a lean-to tile roof, featuring a lancet window to the east and a 2-light window to the north.

Inside, the nave has a 19th-century roof of five bays with braced collars, crown posts, and a collar purlin. Timber framing, adorned with carvings by the 19th-century vicar's wife, is located under the bellcote to the west. 13th-century wall paintings are found within the reveals of the north and south lancets. The apse features clustered shafts with moulded bases and stiff leaf capitals, a plaster vault with moulded ribs and a carved boss, a sedile to the north, and a shelf to the south. A chamfered apse arch has impost mouldings and hoodmoulds with carved stops. Internal fittings include an 18th-century communion rail with twisted and fluted Doric balusters, a restored 15th-century octagonal wooden pulpit with traceried panels, and a re-cut 12th-century font with an intersecting arcade. Monuments include a brass to Margaret Woode (1499), a brass to Henry Leynham (1517), and a tablet to Robert Hopkins (1834) by Whitelaw, featuring a draped urn. The church is notable for its 12th-century south doorway and the rare 13th-century polygonal apse. Stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops are a feature.