Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with a long history, dating back to the 12th century for the chancel, the 13th century for the nave and its windows, the 15th century for the porch and further window replacements, and the early 16th century for the tower and nave roof. The building is constructed of flint and rubble, with some banding of ashlar, and parts are rendered. The roofs are tiled and covered with stone slates.

The church is laid out as a nave, chancel, and a west tower with a north porch. The west tower is unbuttressed, with two stages separated by weathered string courses. It has a two-light pointed window with Y tracery on its west side, and square-headed, two-light belfry windows with returns from the parapet string, which also serves as a label. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet. The nave and chancel primarily feature 13th-century two-light windows with trefoil heads. The north side of the nave has two Perpendicular-style windows of two and three lights, with square heads; the western window has a stopped label. The east window consists of three graduated lancets beneath a common pointed head. A blocked 12th-century doorway with a rebuilt pointed head is located in the south chancel wall. A blocked 13th-century chamfered, pointed doorway is visible in the south nave wall, with a similar north doorway. The north porch has a pointed arch of two chamfered orders that transition into the responds.

Inside, the tower has a pointed arch of one chamfered order dying into responds. The nave has a 16th-century wagon roof with arched braced trusses and chamfered wall-plates. The chancel has a 19th-century collar-beam truss. Late 17th-century communion rails with turned balusters are present, alongside 17th-century panelling reset as a dado in the chancel. The altar is flanked by two reset 13th-century coffin lids, and other 13th-century coffin lids are reused throughout the church. A 17th-century octagonal pulpit features two levels of panelling and a chip-carved guilloche frieze. Pews are made of reused 17th-century moulded panelling. Fragments of early 14th-century wall paintings depict acts of St Margaret of Antioch and an allegory of three living and three dead figures, amongst smaller fragments. There are two medieval piscinae, a 16th-century square font on a square pedestal with a 16th-century pyramidal timber cover, reset medieval chancels with slip decoration in the chancel, and some 15th-century glass.

This is a largely unspoiled church, retaining numerous medieval features.