Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed building dating from the 12th, 13th, and 15th centuries, with restoration work completed in 1870. It features a small aisleless nave and a western tower from the Norman period. The church has a red tile roof that is lower over the chancel. The walls are constructed with stone quoins and a cement plinth, while the chancel is made of flint with stone dressings. A rood stair from around 1500 projects on the north side as a semicircular turret with a chequered wall of white stone and flint. The windows display Early English, Perpendicular, and Victorian Decorated styles. The Norman north doorway is adorned with dogtooth ornamentation, and there is a blocked south doorway. The tower includes massive brick corner buttresses and some late 17th-century brick walling, with the bell chamber and pyramid roof covered in shingles. Inside, there is a fine rood screen from around 1500 set on a later stone-walled base, a notable octagonal 15th-century font, and a Royal Coat of Arms dating from 1768. The north porch, added in the Victorian era, features a tiled gabled roof, a timber frame, and a stone base.