Parish Church Of St Mary Magdalene

The parish church of St. Mary Magdalene is a building with significant origins in the 12th century, later extended in the 14th century with a north aisle and a south porch, and further altered in the 15th century with the addition of a west tower. It is constructed of limestone rubble with stone dressings, the tower being of dressed rubble, and has old tile roofs.

The church is comprised of a three-bay chancel, a three-bay nave with a north aisle, a south porch, and a west tower. The chancel has two pointed-head lancet windows on its east wall. The north and south walls each have three lancet windows, with varying sill heights. A blocked doorway is visible between the two left hand lancets on the south side. The north aisle features a reset east window of three trefoil lights with three quatrefoils in a two-centred head. Further windows in the north wall use flowing tracery and trefoil lights with quatrefoils above. A central doorway has continuously moulded orders and a label with head stops. The south wall of the nave has a lowset lancet to the east, and is flanked by three-light windows with cinquefoil lights under a square head. A timber-framed porch fronts the south side, with three-light 15th-century windows either side. The south doorway of the nave, dating to the mid-12th century, has a semi-circular moulded head and shafted jambs, the left-hand shaft decorated with spirals and the right-hand with lozenges, along with scalloped capitals and moulded abaci. The west tower, of two stages, has diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet. A stair turret, square at its base, transitions to an octagonal shape above the parapet, topped with a pyramidal stone cap. The west doorway of the tower has continuous moulded jambs, with a two-light window above. Belfry windows have two trefoil lights and a quatrefoil within a pointed head.

Inside, the chancel windows have deep round rere-arches. A piscina from around 1200 is located at the south east, alongside a pointed arched sedile. A cupboard in the north wall retains medieval wooden lining. The chancel arch is two-centred, slightly chamfered to the nave, with square jambs and moulded abaci. The north arcade consists of three semi-circular arches, each with a single square order, lacking both abaci and bases. A stoup sits to the east of the south door. The tower arch is of three chamfered orders, dying into square jambs. The roofs are 19th-century arch-braced collar constructions, incorporating some 15th-century head corbels. Late 17th-century communion rails feature moulded rails and twisted balusters. A 15th-century screen stands within the chancel arch, with open traceried upper panels and closed lower sections. A 14th-century pulpit, a rare survival, is composed of three panels carved as a half hexagon with blind, flowing tracery and an embattled top. 16th-century pews with trefoil panel ends and embattled dado rails line the west half of the nave. The font, from around 1200, has a tapering circular bowl on a modern stem, and is covered by an octagonal Jacobean sounding board. Brass memorials include one to Sir John Stodeley, vicar in 1502, and a monument to John Goodwyn, dated 1558, featuring coats of arms and an inscription set within an arched frame on shafts. 17th-century floor slabs are present in the aisle.