Church Of St Gregory

The Church of St. Gregory is a parish church largely dating to the 12th and 13th centuries, with a 15th-century porch. It's constructed of flint with limestone dressings and has thatched roofs. The church comprises a west tower, a nave, an apsidal chancel, a north aisle, and a south porch.

The west tower has a 12th-century round base, topped by a later octagonal stage built from knapped flint and brick quoins. It features stone-dressed lancet bell openings with a single plain chamfer. There’s a lower lancet window on the west side and a single light window with a square brick drip mould. The 15th-century south porch is constructed largely of brick, with a four-centred arch of moulded brick and engaged shafts. A square drip mould with shields in the spandrels sits above, and blocked niche above. Blocked windows with square drip moulds are located in the east and west walls of the porch. Remnants of cusping can be seen in the east window. The south wall of the nave contains one 3-light 15th-century window with blocked heads to the tracery, and one lancet. The chancel has an apsidal east end with ashlar pilaster-buttresses dividing bays; a 2-light south window with rendered brick 'Y' tracery under a shallow arched head. An early 19th-century memorial tablet and a reduced-opening lancet are within the south-east bay. The east window is Decorated in style, with a square head, alongside a small lancet in the north-east bay, and a 2-light north window with cusped ogee heads. The east and west windows of the north aisle, dating from around 1300, feature intersecting and 'Y' tracery. Much of the north aisle wall has been rebuilt in brick, incorporating two lancets now with square heads, and a 2-light 'Y' tracery window. Remains of a 12th-century north doorway are visible, with a shaft and capital on the west side, and a zigzag moulded inner arch, now blocked with red brick. A very fine 12th-century south doorway features four orders of shafts with decorated cushion capitals and reel, zigzag, bobbin, star and wheel motifs within the arches and hood mould.

The interior includes a crudely-formed north arcade of three bays with pointed arches and plain chamfered piers, with no capitals or imposts. The chancel ceiling is plastered and coved. Nave and aisle roofs feature roll-moulded principals with arch-braces on wall posts, and the nave ceiling is boarded. A double-chamfered chancel arch rests on polygonal responds. A recess for a rood stair is located in the south-east corner of the nave. The north aisle windows have deeply splayed and arched internal reveals with stepped or dropped cills. A raised area of floor is present at the east end of the aisle, with paving incorporating medieval tiles and a memorial slab to Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Crowe (died 1666). The north aisle is partly paved with stone coffin slabs and includes 17th-century memorials to the Crowe family, including another to Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Crowe (died 1659). Corbels on the south side of the north aisle indicate the former location of a lower wall plate. The font, probably 12th-century, is a plain square bowl on an octagonal stem with a square base and four corner shafts with volute capitals, all set on two square risers with chamfered edges.