Parish Church

The parish church likely originated in the Saxon or Norman period, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th and 15th centuries, around 1708, and a late 19th-century restoration. The church is constructed from coursed rubble, with some herringbone masonry to the chancel, squared and coursed rubble to the nave and tower, and ashlar to the south porch facade, buttresses, quoins, and window surrounds. It comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, a north aisle extended to form a transept, and a south porch.

The south elevation of the nave and chancel features three Perpendicular windows with two and three cusped lights under flat heads; the chancel window is a 19th-century replacement. A 3-light 15th-century window is set within a Tudor-arched recess on the north side of the chancel, this recess potentially marking the location of a demolished Early English tomb. The north side of the nave has a 3-light mullioned window under a flat head. The aisle transept has two gabled ends and 15th-century windows with two and three cusped lights, flat heads, hoodmoulds and large lozenge labels.

The 15th-century tower, restored around 1708, has two stages with low, diagonal buttresses to the west corners, round-headed lights to the bell openings, and oversized crocketed corner pinnacles. The west face has a doorway under a flat head with a hoodmould and plank door, while the north face has a 2-light window and a clock to the south.

The circa 1708 south porch is rusticated with quoins, a cambered entrance arch with a bracketed keystone and pediment with an urn at the apex. The south door has a heavy bolection moulding and two-leaf plank doors, with stone seats on either side.

Inside, the nave has a 13th-century north arcade to the aisle transept (two bays, with a further west bay demolished), featuring clustered shafts with trumpet and stiff-leaf capitals and pointed arches with two orders of roll moulding. The nave also has a 15th-century tie and collar-beam roof with arched braces to the collars and a single tier of windbraces. Open rafter roofs are found in the chancel and north transept. The chancel has a nodding ogee-headed niche to the north wall, partially obscured by the insertion of a 15th-century wall and window.

The church contains a 13th-century font with a circular pillar, ring shaft, and circular bowl; an 18th-century pulpit; five prayer boards on the west wall; an early 20th-century roodscreen and pews; an 18th-century communion rail and contemporary panelling to the side walls and reredos. The north transept houses a 1722 monument to George Ayliffe by Stanton and Horsenail, a marble monument in Baroque style with barley sugar columns, flaming urns and a frothy inscription cartouche. A stained glass Luce memorial window from 1901 is located in the south wall of the nave, with 1865 and 1866 windows in the chancel and a later 19th-century window in the transept.