Parish Church Of St Pancras

The Parish Church of St Pancras is a building of group value, comprising a 15th-century tower, a chancel dated 1874, and a nave constructed in 1875. The chancel was designed by Ewan Christian, while the nave is the work of G R Crickmay. The church is built of banded squared rubble and flint, with tiled, gable-ended roofs featuring stone copings.

The church plan includes a chancel, nave, west tower, a north porch, and a north vestry. The tower and nave are executed in the 'Perpendicular' style, while the chancel reflects the 'Early English' style. The unbuttressed west tower consists of two stages, topped with an embattled ashlar parapet and corner crocketted finials. The west door is accessed via a two-centred, moulded arch with continuous jambs and a stopped label. Above is a three-light window, also with a stopped label. The upper stage of the tower features a rectangular window with two lancets and pierced stone panels on the north face, and a square two-light window with pierced stone panels on the remaining faces.

The nave's windows are three-light, square-headed, with returned labels. The chancel's east wall is characterized by three graduated lancets and a continuous stopped label. The north and south chancel walls have lancets; the south wall also contains a two-light window with a quatrefoil under a two-centred head. The vestry has a chamfered east doorway and four lancets to the north. A gabled, tiled porch has loops on its east and west sides, and a two-centred, moulded doorway with continuous jambs and a label featuring carved stops. The north door is framed by a ‘Tudor’ arch springing from capitals and chamfered jambs, with a reset chevron ornament likely dating to the 19th century.

Inside, the tower features a two-centred arch with casement moulding and continuous jambs, topped with a quatrefoil. The two-centred, moulded chancel arch is continuous with the jambs, with the inner order springing from a shaft. The east chancel window has shafted rere-arches. The chancel has a wagon roof springing from a wall-plate, and the nave has scissor trusses springing from carved corbels. The church contains a 15th-century octagonal font with quatrefoil panels, resting on an octagonal pier with two tiers of blind round arches. Wall tablets, 19th-century glass, pews, a pulpit, and other fittings are also present, along with 19th- and 20th-century glass.