Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen, built in 1845 by Ferry, replaces a medieval building and showcases an Early English design that reflects advanced scholarship for its time. The church features a chancel with two bays and a vestry on the north side, a nave with four bays, and a tower positioned above the south porch, which is the third bay. The steep tile roof complements the flint walling with stone dressings. Architectural details include an eaves fascia on brackets, hood moulds linked to an impost moulded band, a cill band, a plinth, and stepped buttresses.

Notably, a doorway from around 1200, taken from the old church, is incorporated at the west end and features slender shafts. The windows include lancets and coupled lancets beneath cusped plate tracery, with the east end displaying three lancets below a circular window. The west end has two lancets set within an external five-arched arcade beneath a triangular segmental opening containing three circular lights.

The tower consists of four stages, with the second stage having battered corners that create an octagonal base for the third stage, which features small double lancets on each face and culminates in a parapet topped by a stone spire. Inside, there is a 15th-century Perpendicular octagonal font, remnants of a 15th-century wood screen, a brass from a Thomas Sympson bequest dated 1674, and several 18th-century monuments. The 1845 features include a stone pulpit, prescriptions in two lancet panels set in the well opposite the door, some stained glass (including two heraldic designs on the south side of the chancel), and an arch-braced hammer-beam roof.