Architectural Features
Good C15 north porch with flint panelling partly repaired with brick in C18, including tumbling in north gable.
Fine double piscina and sedilia in chancel and fragments of C14 glass in three windows.
Lower portion of painted C15 screen under chancel arch with 2 seats abutting to east.
C15 font with carved panels including Assumption of the Virgin.
A church at this site is mentioned in the Domesday book but St Mary's > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1699521 as we see it today was built during the 15th century and its north porch > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1699551 is a good example of knapped flint and stone flushwork decoration. It is not known when the building lost its round tower. When antiquary Tom Martin visited the church in 1735 he recorded 'the steeple down'. The church bell is presently housed in a wooden bell turret. The church houses the original 15th century baptismal font with four seated lions against the stem and carved designs around the bowl which include a rare Holy Trinity and an even rarer Assumption of Our Lady, flanked by angels. The font cover dates from the 17th century. The church also retains the original C15 rood screen dado with painted panels and stencilled floral decorations > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1699581 and some of the benches in the nave date from this time also. At the west end there are two painted figures depicting Moses and Aaron > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1699628 which once accompanied a set of Commandment Boards behind the altar.
C17 cover.