Church Of St Laurence

The Church of St Laurence is a parish church that dates back to the 14th century, featuring a nave, aisles, tower, and chancel, with significant alterations made in the late 15th century and extensive restoration between 1884 and 1889. The late 15th-century south porch, along with the north chapel and vestry added in 1889, are notable elements of the structure. The church is constructed from coursed rubble stone, with a tiled roof for the nave and chancel, and lead roofs for the aisles.

The west tower, which has three stages, is topped with a battlemented parapet and features three-light cusped perpendicular openings in the bell chamber. A moulded Decorated doorway and a two-light window above it have been much restored. The nave is adorned with a plain parapet, two three-light late 15th-century cusped windows, and a small central quatrefoil window in the clerestory. The south aisle contains four-light cusped Perpendicular windows flanking the porch and in the east end wall, along with two-light Decorated windows to the right and in the west wall, all of which have been much restored. The south door features a moulded two-centred archway.

The fine late 15th-century porch is highlighted by a battlemented parapet, finials, buttresses, and a four-centred arch supported by slender shafts at the front, with moulded spandrels and an ogee canopied niche. The roof of the porch includes moulded purlins, a ridge, and carved bosses. The north aisle has restored Perpendicular three-light windows, small two-light Decorated windows to the left and in the west wall, and a small two-centred arched doorway.

Inside, the tower features two-centred double chamfered arches on semi-octagonal responds leading to the nave and aisles. The nave has a four-bay arcade with similar arches on octagonal piers with moulded caps, and a similar arch leads to the chancel. The south chapel includes a piscina with two ogee cusped arches at the corner of the window reveal. The north aisle contains fragments of 15th-century wall paintings depicting St. Thomas of Canterbury and St. Christopher, while the aisle roofs are partly original. The chancel features a decorated cinquefoil piscina with carved spandrels, restored sedilia and aumbry, and 19th-century wall paintings. The pulpit has been altered in the 17th century, and the church contains late 19th to early 20th-century glass. Other fittings from around 1900 include small brasses commemorating Thomas Figge from 1578 and Dorothy Barnard from 1634.