Architectural Features
Angel with shield supporting a mid-wall pilaster buttress flanked by gargoyles over the belfry opening.
Late C13 lancets and priests' door, all reset, to north chancel chapel.
early C13 north arcade of 4 pointed double-chamfered arches on round abaci, cylindrical piers, and low moulded bases with spurs.
Early C14 south arcade of 4 pointed double-chamfered arches on octagonal abaci and piers and triple-stepped bases of unusual design.
Early C13 pointed chancel arch on moulded corbels and plain responds.
The remains of an early C14 timber screen fills the western arch to the chancel north chapel and also the tower arch: in the north chapel is pointed, moulded, door opening, of 3 filleted orders on nook- shafts with trefoil mouchettes in roundels to the spandrels, rebated to take a door.
Dodecagonal font, of plain design with a dogtooth band, of c1860.
This church is remarkable for the large number of late C18/early C19 monuments
chief among these are the following: 1) Joseph Sykes, died 1805, by John Bacon Junior, north chancel wall: an inscribed marble tablet to plinth: above that a lunette panel containing 3 small allegorical figures and flanked to right by a figure of Commerce holding a caduceus and to the left by bales, tools, and a compass: a full- rigged ship sails away, over the lunette panel, which is crowned by weighing-scales and a sword.
Over all this is Sykes himself, emerging from his shattered coffin among rocks while over him an angel blows the Last Trump.
2) 2 early C19 Gothic memorials in the mortuary chapel: each with an inscription beneath a canopy with crocketed gablet and finial
3) Monument to Mrs Seaman and her 2 daughters in the tower chamber, erected 1769
3 portrait medallions hang from carved stone nails over a drape with an inscription, all framed under a segmental pediment on black marble Ionic shafts standing on a plinth supported by consoles.
More such monuments, many with sarcophagi over inscribed tablets, are to be seen in the body of the church.