Church Of The Holy Rood

The Church of the Holy Rood is a parish church that dates back to the 13th century, featuring alterations and furnishings from the early 17th century, with some minor changes since then and a 19th-century exterior. The church has a nave consisting of four bays with aisles, an aisleless chancel (which previously had chapels on both the north and south sides), a Victorian south vestry, a bell-turret at the west end of the nave, and a west porch. The walls are made of malmstone, primarily rubble, with reused windows in the aisles that were made narrower in the 17th century. The porch has been rebuilt from the south side, and the chancel features Victorian polygonal work, with lancet windows throughout. The roof is tiled.

The bell turret has a 19th-century shingled broach spire that houses the bells, sitting above a 17th-century timber-framed lantern, which has a glazed upper part and exposed lower framing in the west wall of the interior. Inside the church, notable features include pointed arches with hoodmoulds adorned with dog-tooth ornament, moulded caps with stiff-leaf foliage, and round, octagonal, and clustered columns. There is an arch leading to the former north chapel and the remains of another arch that provided access from the south aisle to the former south chapel, with the former south doorway now blocked.

The church also contains a Norman Purbeck square font with arcaded panels, resting on a drum and supported by corner columns. The seating is mostly from the 15th century, featuring simple decorative elements on the bench ends. Significant work was carried out in 1624, resulting in a fine screen with open strapwork and a pierced frieze (now located at the west end), along with communion rails, a pulpit, chairs, a desk, and a chest.