Church Of St Martin Of Tours

The Church of St. Martin of Tours is a parish church located in Guston, dating back to the 12th century, with restoration work carried out in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of flint and features a plain tiled roof. It comprises a chancel and nave, along with a north porch, a south vestry, and a western bell turret. Notable architectural elements include a large central triple offset buttress on the west wall, topped with a timber and shingled turret and spirelet over the 14th-century south vestry. The north porch has a simple chamfered outer arch and a 12th-century north doorway, which is adorned with wave and roll moulding on attached shafts, including one scalloped capital and another to the west featuring overlapping rings.

The church has 19th-century windows throughout, except for the original 12th-century triple round-headed lancet east window. Inside, the church reveals the windows and features a 12th-century tie beam roof, with the area above the collar beams ceiled in. The chancel is stepped and has a 19th-century trussed rafter roof. The interior fittings include 19th-century floriate brass brackets for the altar rail light, a three-bay chancel screen without tracery, a pulpit, a font, and benches, including one at the southwest with an attached poor box. The glass in the nave commemorates Francis William Prescott, who died in 1919, and is now very dark blue, purples, and orange, creating a broad composition that contrasts with the more typical 19th-century glass found elsewhere in the church.