Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church that dates from the late 12th century, with additions and alterations made in the early and late 13th century, and restorations in 1849 and 1891. It features flint walls and a tiled roof. The church has an aisleless chancel with a small Victorian north vestry, a nave with north and south aisles, a west tower, and a south porch.

The nave arcade, dating around 1175, consists of four pointed Transitional arches supported by Norman cylindrical columns with scalloped capitals. The 13th-century chancel includes two narrow lancets on the north side and two wider lancets on the south side, flanking a priest's door. The east window has triple lancets framed inside by a hoodmould with dog-tooth ornamentation, resting on slender jamb shafts with moulded caps. To the south of the east window is a piscina with a trefoil head and short jamb shafts. The Perpendicular tower arch leads into the tower.

The 13th-century font has cusped recesses on its sides and a tub support, along with four separate corner shafts with moulded caps and bases. The oak cover is a panelled pyramid topped with a ball finial and features a fascia around the base with raised letters stating, "I am given by Martha Hunt Anna 1605." The church contains several wall monuments, including one from 1606 dedicated to Nicholas Holdip, as well as others from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and some in a similar traditional style from the early 20th century.

Inside the tower, there are corner timber supports for the belfry. Externally, the church exhibits Victorian characteristics, with plain roofs, flint walls adorned with stone dressings, stepped buttresses, a plinth, and coubled traceried lights in the nave. The prominent west tower, built in 1891, features diagonal buttresses with an elaborate arrangement of steps, some of which have gabled ornamentation. At the top of the tower is a timber turret, crowned by a broach spire.