Church Of St Dunstan

The Church of St Dunstan is a parish church dating to the early 14th century with substantial rebuilding in the late 14th and 15th centuries. A 19th-century vestry and organ chamber were added to the north side of the chancel. The church was restored in 1863. The building is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features tiled chancel and south porch roofs, and lead roofs to the nave, aisles, tower, and north transept.

The west tower, of three stages, has a moulded plinth and strings, angle buttresses, and a parapet with a carved head corbel table. It includes two-light traceried openings to the bell-chamber, lancets below, a two-light traceried window and moulded doorway to the west - the doorway’s hoodmould has carved head stops - and a projecting stair turret at the southeast corner. The nave has a late 15th-century clerestory with four bays of three-light cusped windows and a restored battlemented parapet. The north aisle has a small 20th-century two-light cusped window at the west end, a further 20th-century three-light cusped window, a three-light Perpendicular window, and a moulded doorway. The south aisle has a chamfered plinth and dripmould, with two two-light traceried windows, the right-hand window featuring a moulded surround, carved head stops, moulded arches, and slender shafts with moulded capitals. A 19th-century three-light window is found to the east, while a moulded south doorway has a stoup to its right. The 15th-century gabled porch includes a restored arch with moulded chalk spandrels, a cusped blind window above, and single cusped lights to the sides. The north transept has restored three-light Perpendicular windows with carved head hoodmould stops to the north and east. Similar windows are found to the north and south of the chancel, the south side also incorporating a small 19th-century door, and the east end containing a 19th-century three-light traceried window.

Inside, a triple chamfered arch leads to the tower, with a small arched opening to the chamber above. The nave has a clunch arcade with four bays of double hollow-chamfered arches, with broach stops to octagonal piers with moulded capitals; the northeast arch leads to a transept with a similar arch to the north aisle. The central spandrel of the north arcade features a cusped niche. The nave, aisles, and transept have fine 15th-century roofs with moulded beams and traceried spandrels, with carved head stone corbels on the transept and north side of the nave. Arched openings to the rood loft stairs are found at the northeast corner of the nave. A stone bracket carved with foliage stands behind the pulpit, and another bracket with a carved head is in the north transept. The transept also contains a clunch niche with remains of a gabled canopy and finials. A wide chamfered arch defines the chancel. The remainder of the chancel was totally restored. The south porch has a 15th-century roof with moulded beams, queen strut trusses, and tracery panels to the tie beams, one featuring a carved head. Fittings include a 12th-century font with a fluted basin and carved frieze; a restored 15th-century screen with five moulded arches and restored painted figures in lower traceried panels; four 15th-century bench ends in the nave, with carved figures and faces on the poppyheads; a medieval south door; medieval floor tiles at the east end of the nave and in the transept; and various 19th-century fittings. An 18th-century marble wall tablet and 15th-century brasses depicting a man and wife are in the south aisle.