Church Of St Swithun

The Church of St. Swithun is a parish church with roots in the 13th century, undergoing significant alterations and restorations through the 15th and early 16th centuries, and a substantial Victorian restoration in 1863. A further, 19th-century porch was added to the south side. It is constructed of semi-dressed coursed rubble limestone with slate roofs.

The west tower, built in the 15th and early 16th centuries, rises in three stages and features a moulded plinth, a battlemented parapet, clasping buttresses, and two-light traceried openings to the bell chamber. On the west side is a small blind round panel, formerly housing a clock, a three-light traceried window, and a moulded doorway with a two-centred arch. The south wall, dated 1630, has 17th-century Perpendicular windows: a three-light window to the left and a four-light window with a round-arched head to the right. A restored 13th-century doorway has a moulded outer arch on slender shafts and a cusped inner arch on chamfered piers. The north side features a four-light Perpendicular window in the west bay, a clerestory of 19th-century round cusped windows, and a plain parapet. The north aisle has three-light cusped windows, one to the west, one to the north with flat heads, and one to the east in a four-centred arch. The north door has a chamfered two-centred arch, moulded spandrels, and a 19th-century hoodmould. The chancel, rebuilt, has three lancet windows with hoodmoulds and a triple lancet to the east.

Inside, a hollow chamfered arch leads to the tower. The 15th-century north arcade comprises three bays with double chamfered arches on wide octagonal piers with moulded caps. A 19th-century arch to a roof-loft is set into the northeast wall of the nave. The original entry to the north aisle has a four-centred arch with carved spandrels and a hood with a carved head stop. A cusped piscina is also present. The chancel arch has a moulded outer arch and jambs, and a chamfered inner arch on moulded corbels. The interior of the east window has slender shafts with moulded caps and flanking blind panels. A pair of cusped piscinae are also present. The church contains a 13th-century font, a 17th-century altar table, and 15th-century wall paintings in the north aisle depicting souls journeying to Paradise, Purgatory, and Hell. Later stained glass is found in the chancel and a west window in the north aisle (dated 1859). Other fittings are from the 19th and 20th centuries. Monuments include brasses to Thomas Adams and his family (1626), commemorating his murder, 19th and 20th-century wall tablets to the Fremantle family in the chancel, and early 18th-century wall tablets to Thomas and Ann Deverel (d. 1699) and members of the Adams family.