St Mary

Restored 1868 by Eden Nesfield when in partnership with Norman Shaw, with new S porch, refacing of nave, chancel and aisles, and part rebuilding of chancel and aisles

Tower has remains of plaster facing, Totternhoe stone dressings, and several SPAB type tile repairs to stonework

Steep old red tile roofs to chancel, S porch, and vestry, the rest low pitched behind crenellated parapets (plain to aisles). A village church of square ended chancel, N vestry, 3-bays nave, aisles, S porch, and large W tower

The chancel has a high open timber roof with embattled collar beams, and a patterned floor of coloured and encaustic tiles with several stone steps to sacristy

Brass inscribed to Sibbill Barber d.1614

C13 double piscina at SE with lancet window over

Elaborate C13 small S doorway with external jamb shafts and ironwork decoration to plank door

3-lights traceried E window with stained glass by Kempe 1901, and similar window to S wall

Stone relief reredos, carved oak ciborium in arched recess to N of altar, and probably polychrome organ case and ironwork communion rail, from Nesfield's restoration with carved work by James Forsyth

Carved serpent by vestry door from Hall family crest

Alabaster wall monument to Timothy Sheppard, d.1613

Early C14 wide chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders with half-octagonal responds, moulded caps, and C15 Perp painted wooden screen with ogee traceried upper panels and cresting

The 3-bays nave has a plain open timber roof of king-post roof, tie-beams, wallposts and 2 large C15 stone corbells to E-truss

The narrow N aisle has an open timber roof with some timbers of C15, a 3-lights pointed N window, a single-light trefoil W window, C14 pointed doorway and an image bracket to N of E window

Wall monuments to Roland Hale d.1688, and Richard Hale, 1689

Cinquefoil C14 piscina opposite in S wall

C15 open timber roof, and C15 3-lights windows at E and S, and 2-lights at SW

The SE window has stained glass and inscribed stone tablet 1867 by William Morris of 3 archangels, uninfluenced by Burne-Jones

S doorway C15 of 2 moulded orders with 4-centred arched head under square head with quarterfoil spandrels, deep hollows, slender attached shafts with small angels below caps

Gabled S porch has arched entrance, cusped bargeboards, plaster-vaulted interior, and chip-carved roundels on corner posts one with chrysanthamum motif (also on rainwater heads). The massive W tower is of 3 stages marked by chamfered stone bands, stepped corner buttresses, projecting polygonal stair turret at SE carried higher than the parapet, C14 2-lights bell-opening on each face with quartrefoil in pointed head, small single-light window to middle stage, 2-lights C14 W window, and pointed W door with old oak door

Tower arch to nave C14 of 2 chamfered orders, 2-centred, with jamb shafts