Church Of St Martin

The Church of St. Martin is a Grade II* listed building located in Shutford. It dates from the late 12th century to the 13th century, was rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries, and underwent restoration in 1841. The church is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble and features slate roofs. It has stone-coped gables on the chapel and parapets on the chancel and nave.

The layout includes a chancel, nave, north chapel, north aisle, and a tower at the west end of the north aisle. The chancel has a three-light east window with intersecting tracery, a two-light lancet window with a cinquefoil on the north side, and a two-light Perpendicular window along with a lancet on the south side. The nave features a two-light Perpendicular window with a hood mould on the south. The north aisle contains two three-light windows with intersecting tracery, and the parapet has a sundial on the south side.

There is a gabled stone porch with a stone slate roof and a stone-coped gable, featuring a pointed arched doorway and a plank door. The narrow Perpendicular tower has two stages, with a late 12th-century window on the ground stage and Perpendicular windows in the bell-chamber stage, topped with a crenellated parapet and finials. The tower also has ashlar diagonal buttresses.

Inside, the 12th-century north arcade consists of two plain pointed arches and a round pier with a trumpet scalloped capital. A third bay to the east is from the 13th century and opens to the 13th-century chapel, which includes a squint to the chancel. The church features a Perpendicular chancel screen and an octagonal Romanesque font. There are 19th-century bench seats and roofs in the chapel and chancel.