St Mary The Virgin (church Of England)

Flint rubble, nave faced in coursed flints and pebbles with a few Roman tiles

Steep red tile roofs, half-conical with gablet to apse, pyramidal to tower with weathercock and vane

C14 traceried 3-lights E window with square head

Single C13 lancet window in N wall fitted into C12 splayed opening with round headed rear-arch

C13 lancet and low-side window in S wall

Early C12 chancel arch, semi-circular head with heavy roll-moulding, engaged shafts, capitals with primitive ovolutes on the W angles, chamfered and recessed bead ornamented imposts, scallop bases and chamfered plinths

C13 piscina with angle shafts and square head

Tall 5-bays nave has external stringcourses where walls heightened for late C15 roof and 2 taller pointed S windows

The open timber roof has a plain ridge and one purlin to each slope, moulded wallplates and wallposts rising from stone corbels carved as heads (2 beasts appear Romanesque

2-lights C14 ogee traceried window in N wall

C14 N doorway with segmental rear-arch now gives access to vestry

Ornamented Romanesque S entrance c.1120 with heavy roll-moulded round arch, all-over grid of chip-carved ornament to tympanum and abacus, jambs of 2 orders, the angles of the cushion capitals of the shafts of the outer order having rudely carved faces, and inverted scallop bases like the chancel arch

Through the N abutment of the chancel arch is a low C15 squint into the chancel

Plain stone font probably C15 with flared octagonal bowl, chamfered offset to fat octagonal shaft on hollow-moulded base and octagonal step

Pews at W end of nave C15 or early C16 with buttress pilasters

The C15 tower arch is 4-centred with 2 moulded orders, the outer with a continuous wave moulding, the inner on jamb shafts with octagonal caps and bases

Gargoyle above each opening in string course at base of crenelated parapet.