Church Of St Martin

The Church of St Martin is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with substantial rebuilding and alterations occurring in the late 18th century and 13th century. A 15th-century tower was also added, and all elements have undergone restoration in the late 18th century. The nave is constructed of large stone blocks, squared and coursed, with brick repairs and dressings. The chancel is rendered. The nave has a slate roof, while the chancel is tiled.

The two-stage tower features clasping buttresses, a brick parapet, and pointed single openings to the bell chamber. The west side contains a window with a pointed arch, but lacking tracery, and a doorway with a moulded four-centred arch. The nave displays a late 18th-century moulded stone cornice and coped gables, with fragments of decorative Norman masonry incorporated into the walls. The south wall includes two round-arched windows with brick surrounds and leaded glazing in wooden Y-frame sashes. A late 18th-century gabled porch, rendered with moulded wooden eaves and cornice broken by a round arch to the front, shelters a central entrance. The north wall features two similar windows, the easternmost having a moulded stone surround with an altered pointed arch. A blocked 12th-century doorway on the north wall features a round arch with chevron ornament, carved impost blocks, remains of a lintel with interlace ornament, and a single dressed stone jamb. The chancel has small 13th-century lowside lancet windows on the west and south sides, and a 19th-century two-light traceried window on the east side. The north side of the chancel has a similar 19th-century window in the center and a narrow, square-headed window to the east. The east wall features a 19th-century triple lancet, the central one being taller.

Inside, the 12th-century chancel arch was altered in the 15th and later centuries, now featuring a pointed double-chamfered arch, with outer orders resting on shafts topped with caps, one of which has cable moulding. The 15th-century chancel roof boasts moulded tie beams and queen struts to the end trusses, curved wind-braces, and an altered hammer-beam truss in the center with a four-centred arch. A rectangular recess with a double opening is found on the north wall of the chancel, while the south wall reveals a 13th-century round-arched piscina with roll moulding and a blocked doorway. The nave houses a late 18th-century west gallery atop four small Doric columns and an entablature, with a panelled front featuring inscriptions with sayings of former rectors. Box pews and a pulpit of a similar date are also present. A disused square 12th-century font resides in the tower, while a 19th-century octagonal font is in use. Other fittings are mainly from the 19th century. Brasses include a 15th-century depiction of a couple with scrolled inscriptions, and a brass over an inscription tablet to John Sotton and his wife, dated 1518; another depicts an early 16th-century figure of a lady with a child at her skirts.