Church Of Saint Vincent

The Church of St Vincent is a church dating from the 13th century with later additions. It is constructed of local stone mixed with Han stone, roughly squared and coursed, with Han stone dressings. The roof is of plain clay tile with bands of fish scale tiles, featuring coped gables and cross finials on the chancel and South porch. The building consists of two main parts, a nave and a chancel, with a later-added South porch and a Western bell turret.

The chancel has a triple lancet window on its East side, a string course running only below this window. The North and South walls feature pairs of cusped lancet windows with square labels. A simple plinth and clasping corner buttresses are also present. The nave is characterised by offset buttresses to each bay, with a larger projection housing the stair to the rood loft on the North-east corner. The North and South walls feature 15th century traceried pointed arch windows. A small triangular arched doorway is found on the North side, with an old door. On the South side, there is an apparent 19th century rebuild protecting an early, probably 15th century, door set in a 15th century archway, including a separate sanctuary ring and a partly defaced Latin inscription. Above and to the left of the door is an ogee arched statue niche. A niche with a cusped pointed arch, containing a calvary sculpture (missing its top), is high up on the East nave gable. The originally unbuttressed west wall features a large central stepped buttress supporting a lantern-shaped bell turret with a crocketted pinnacled roof.

Inside, the chancel has largely been refurbished in the 19th century, with a cinquefoil rere-arch to the East window and trefoil rere-arches to the other windows. The chancel arch is a rural 15th century style. A blocked early 13th century lancet window is present in the West wall and incorporates later medieval glass fragments. Early internal ferracenta is also present, comparable to Ashington Manor. A North private, manor door is blocked internally, near a triangular headed roof loft doorway and a flat-headed opening above. The church was re-roofed in the 19th century, and the floor is tiled. Fittings include early 17th century box pews and a pulpit with tester and readers desk, also early 17th century. A simple octagonal font with coving under the bowl and an octagonal shaft is also present. A memorial plaque on the North chancel wall commemorates Sir John St. Barbe, who died in 1723, and features scrolls, an urn, and the achievement of his arms.