Church Of St Edmund

The Church of St. Edmund is a parish church that dates from the late 13th century, featuring a west tower, nave, and chancel. The building underwent partial refenestration in the 15th century and was restored in 1853. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and has some rendered areas, topped with thatched roofs.

The tower is square, unbuttressed, and consists of three stages with ashlar quoins. It has a cusped lancet window to the west above a circular squint, along with a single lancet window for the ringing chamber on the west side. The belfry windows are boarded, and the parapet features triple crenellations made of brick, likely from the late 15th century. The west nave gable is supported by later brick kneelers, and the nave is reinforced by stepped side buttresses.

The south doorway is moulded and has a hood with labels, while there are three windows on the south side of the nave. Above the south door, there is a two-light Geometric window from 1853, and to the west, a two-light late 13th-century window with trefoiled-headed lights supporting an irregular quatrefoil vesica. The jambs and mullions of this window are moulded. To the east, there is a three-light Perpendicular window from the 15th century under a depressed arch. The chancel has two renewed two-light windows on the south and north sides, which are square-headed and Perpendicular, along with an arched priests' door on the south side. The east window of the chancel is a four-light intersecting window from the 19th century.

There is a gabled north porch, also thatched, supported by diagonal stepped buttresses, with a moulded arched entrance below a statuary niche and two-light side windows. The inner north door dates from the late 13th century, and there is a two-light north nave window from the 14th century.

Inside, there is an arched doorway leading into the tower, and the nave and chancel roofs are arch-braced, resting on wall posts with one tier of butt purlins and a ridge piece. Pendant bosses are located at the junctions, and the roofs are likely from the 16th century. The chancel arch is from the 19th century, and the rood beam has been re-set. The altar rails from the late 17th century feature turned balusters. The chancel includes a double trefoiled piscina from the 13th century and simple bench sedilia, along with a 19th-century octagonal font.