Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with foundations dating back to the 12th century, featuring alterations and additions from the 15th century, as well as restorations and additions made in 1887 and 1901. The building has flint and stone walls topped with a tiled roof. It includes a chancel with a north chancel vestry from 1887, a nave with three bays and aisles, a western tower, and a south porch. The exterior is plain, characterized by its tiled roof and walls made of flint with stone pieces and dressings. The chancel windows are lancets, while the aisles feature 15th-century coupled lights set within square frames, complete with hood moulds that end in carved heads. The small, plain tower has a top section added in 1901, which includes a crenellated parapet and triple belfry lights. The late 19th-century porch is constructed with a wooden frame on a stone base wall.

Inside, the pointed chancel arch, dating from the 14th century, rests on Norman jambs with scalloped caps on the nook shafts. An inserted fragment of zig-zag ornament from the original Norman arch can be found on the east side. The nave was rebuilt in the 15th century, likely aligning with the three-bay arcade that features a massive barn-like timber frame, consisting of octagonal posts and arch braces. The original king posts above the cambered tie-beams have been replaced by higher collars. The interior also contains floor and wall monuments from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a Perpendicular octagonal font, an inscribed brass memorial from 1609 dedicated to Dr. Reniger, a 19th-century pulpit, a 17th-century wooden chest, and a cast-iron muniments chest from 1813.