Parish Church Of St Mary Magdalene

The parish church of St Mary Magdalene primarily dates to the 14th century, with significant rebuilding in the 15th century, and subsequent additions and alterations through the 16th and 19th centuries. A restoration took place in 1866, which included the addition of a north aisle and rebuilding of the north vestry. The church is constructed of rubble-stone walls with ashlar dressings, and has lead roofs.

The west tower, built in the 14th century, has three stages, an embattled parapet, and gargoyles. The west window features three trefoiled ogee lights with tracery contained within a two-centred arch. A blocked doorway is visible in the sill. The bell-chamber has windows in each wall, each with two trefoiled lights and a quatrefoil in a two-centred head; one south window has pierced stone slabs and a dated inscription from 1634.

The chancel has been largely refenestrated in the 15th century. The east window comprises three cinquefoiled lights with tracery within a two-centred arch, with moulded reveals, label and carved stops. The south wall has two similar windows of two lights. A blocked 15th-century doorway has chamfered jambs and a four-centred head. The north wall incorporates a circa 14th-century window, altered in the 15th century. The nave’s south wall also has two 15th-century windows similar to those in the chancel, with shafted inner reveals and foliage capitals. The north aisle, largely of the 19th century, retains the 15th-century east bay. The east window of this bay is blocked except for the tracery. The aisle itself has four two-light windows and diagonal buttresses.

A 19th-century south porch features side buttresses with set-offs, gabled and coped verges with a cross at the apex. The entrance has responds and a pointed-arch head, with a label stopped above. The inner entrance has moulded jambs and a pointed-arch head, leading to a studded, plank-and-muntin door. The north vestry, also of the 19th century, incorporates a square 15th-century window head with two cinquefoiled ogee lights.

Inside, the north arcade has four bays with attached shafts to piers, carved capitals, and moulded arch-orders with pointed arches. The chancel arch is 19th century, and the tower arch consists of two moulded orders, with the inner order springing from moulded corbels carved with faces. The ground stage of the tower’s roof includes seven 15th-century bosses. The chancel roof is a wagon-roof, ceiled and bossed along the ridge. The nave has arch-braced, scissored roof construction with ashlaring. There are fourteen consecration crosses. Two fonts stand within the church: an octagonal, panelled bowl and stem from the 15th century, and a broken circular bowl with a moulded necking from the 13th century. A stone screen consisting of five bays, including a doorway, dates to the 15th century. Various monuments and floor slabs from the 17th and 18th centuries are also present.