Church of St. Mary the Virgin

The Church of St. Mary the Virgin is a parish church largely dating to around 1300, with significant portions from the 14th century and a restoration in 1875 by Blomfield. The church is constructed from flint and rubble with plain tiled roofs and a shingled spire. It comprises a chancel, north and south chapels, a nave with aisles, and a west tower with north and south porches.

The two-stage tower features a roll moulded and chamfered west doorway and restored 15th-century Perpendicular windows. The spire, an eight-sided cone atop a pyramid, was rebuilt in 1915 after an explosion. The south aisle includes angle buttresses and an offset porch with quatrefoiled oculi containing 14th-century glass. The south chapel is of rubble construction, while the east end of the chancel is flint and rubble, and the north chapel is flint, with a charnel cellar below. The north-east corner of the north chapel has a restored geometric south-east window, a restored curvilinear east window with a sexfoil, and a genuine 14th-century curvilinear three-light window with mouchettes. The north aisle features angle buttresses and two large 14th-century windows, two-light windows with a quatrefoil over, and four smaller windows of a similar design, alongside a lean-to north porch.

Inside, the tower arch is unmoulded and has rounded corners projecting into the nave, containing stairs. The three-bay nave arcade is supported by octagonal piers with double chamfered arches, and a three-bay crown post roof features straight tie beams and solid knees on carved corbels. Continuous wall seats line the nave and aisles. The south aisle displays 15th-century three-bay cusped blind arcading and a string course. A section of keel roll blind hollow chamfered nave arcade and chancel arch, pre-dating the 14th-century expansion of the nave, is exposed in the north-east corner of the nave. The chancel arch is double hollow chamfered on octagonal responds. The chancel, dating to around 1300, has later 14th-century two-bay arcades to the chapels, roll moulded with hollow and plain chamfer on square piers with attached marble shafts and carved leaf capitals, along with fragments of earlier blind arcading and a string course. The roof is a trussed rafter design.

Notable fittings include an ascending triple stone sedilia with a wooden backboard, piscinas in the chancel, south chapel, and north aisle, and paired aumbreys in the chancel east wall and south chapel. A 14th-century screen with square-headed lights (two with mouchettes) and a plastered base leads to the south chapel, accompanying a 14th-century cusped and ogee-headed recess with attached shafts. Medieval floor tiles are present at the east end of the nave and in the north chapel. A 12th-century architectural fragment with zig-zag and diaper mouldings is located in the north aisle.

A 14th-century wall tomb stands in the north chapel, featuring a marble slab with a crocketed and cusped ogee arch and two castellated pinnacles. Two brasses depicting a man and woman (circa 1350) are in the north aisle, originally with a French inscription. Glass includes a roundel of an angel dating to around 1300, other 14th and 15th-century figures, and roundels in the south porch. Fragmentary wall painting is present in the south aisle.