Church Of St Thomas Of Canterbury

The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a parish church with early medieval origins, primarily rebuilt in 1875 according to the design of William White, and features a western tower added in 1898. The church consists of a single cell with a small apse built on old foundations, a north transept, a north vestry at the west end, and a south porch. It has a plain tile roof, with the apse roof featuring five hips above a semi-circular eaves. The walls are constructed from coarse flints, adorned with two thin horizontal bands of tiles, and a stone chequer pattern in the upper part of the apse. Additional architectural details include stone dressings, buttresses, a plinth, coupled windows (including one triple window) with cusping and plate tracery, and two very small windows in the apse. The east gable, which is an early fragment, has a coupled opening with round arches resting on simple impost blocks of early Romanesque design. The tower is made of stone, featuring flat corner buttresses, an octagonal stair turret at the south-west corner, and a shingled broach spire.

Inside, the church is plain; in the apse, the south window is set within a two-arched arcade. The chancel arch, located in the very thick east wall, is pointed and has impost blocks. The tower arch is richly moulded, merging with the jamb, and the inner mouldings finish on carved brackets. A notable feature of the church is a lead font, likely from the early 17th century, which is a tub resting on a 20th-century fluted wooden base and is decorated with raised cast ornaments of fleur-de-lys, thistle, and rose.