Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church located in Tatsfield, dating back to the 12th century with alterations from the 13th century. The tower was added in 1838, and a south porch was constructed in the late 19th century. The building is primarily made of rubblestone with stone dressings, featuring mortar rendering on the chancel, vestry, and north nave wall, while the south porch is timber framed. All sections have plain tiled roofs. The church consists of a nave and chancel with a vestry to the northeast, a porch to the south, and a tower to the west.

The single-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, a stone cornice, and arched trefoil head lancets above. The chancel walls slope inward to the north and south, with two lancet windows on the north side, a Perpendicular window on the south, and a 14th-century window on the east.

Inside, the nave features a simple crown-post roof with three framed bays. There is a window on the southwest with a round-headed rear arch supported by thin jamb shafts with moulded capitals. The pointed chancel arch meets the imposts, and there is a quatrefoil window in the south chancel wall from the 13th century. The south chancel lancet has a rear arch with a keel-shaped section on shafts with circular abaci and a continuous inner order, dating to around 1230.

Notable fittings include an ogee-arched piscina on the east chancel wall and two rectangular openings on the south wall. The stone font has a bowl on a stem, decorated with a billet type design on top.

A monument dedicated to John Corbett, who died in 1712, is located on the south nave wall. It is an oak aedicular type with gilt framing, featuring an urn in a broken pediment supported by Doric half columns.