Church Of St Augustine

The Church of St. Augustine is a parish church dating from the 11th to 12th centuries, with 14th to 15th century window openings, a 16th century north porch, and a restored tower built in 1892 by Loftus Brock. It is constructed of flint with ragstone facing for the tower, and has a plain tiled roof. The church comprises a chancel, nave, south aisle, north porch, and a west tower.

The two-stage tower features triple offset angle buttresses, battlements, and a spirelet. The south aisle has restored, simple pointed windows, and a blocked south doorway with an elliptical head. The chancel is stepped, with trilobed lancet windows to the north and south, and a 15th-century east window of two lights with a quatrefoil above. The nave has two-light, ogee-traceried square-headed windows, as well as a round-headed lancet. The north porch is of red brick in English bond, with moulded brickwork details accentuated with cement and flint panels. The porch features quoins, corbelled eaves, a kneelered gable with aedicule and ribband decoration, a chamfered door surround, and mullioned side windows. A restored 12th-century doorway has a voussoir with a chevron moulding, and an 18th-century panelled door.

The interior includes a 19th-century tower arch with a chamfered surround to a hollow-moulded arch on corbels. The nave has a 12th-century, two-bay south arcade with round responds and scalloped capitals; the centre pier and arches were rebuilt in the 12th century. The arcade cuts through an earlier 11th/12th-century window. A pair of round-headed windows are in the north wall of the south aisle, retaining their original reveals. The nave has a 19th-century tie beam and collar braced roof. The chancel arch is 12th-century, with a wave and roll moulded arch on abaci with a guilloche pattern to the south, a key pattern to the north, and responds with nook shafts. An arched opening from the chancel to the south aisle has a classical effect created in the 16th century by the addition of a keystone and imposts. The chancel has a 19th-century trussed rafter roof.

Fittings include a simple round-headed piscina and aumbrey in the north wall of the chancel, an octagonal 15th-century font on a pillared base dated 1892, the bowl moulded with stylised leaf and half-angel figures. A 16th-century hourglass bracket of wrought iron with a twisted stem and trumpet is attached to the chancel arch respond, and includes a scrolled body and cage containing an hourglass. A painting of the Royal Arms from 1801 is on the north wall, alongside a 16th-century brass, originally about 9 inches high, depicting a member of the Master family, now refitted on a stone on the south chancel wall. There is also a monument to Thomas Marsh, dated 1634, and a large wall tablet in the chancel with a grey plaque featuring gilt lettering in a veined white marble surround, a scrolled apron, festooned base, floriate side scrolls, and a broken segmental pediment containing an embroidered Annunciation scene and reused 14th-century devices.