St James

Part painted stucco with stone dressings to windows, brick tower and old tile roof

The chancel and nave date from the C12 and remaining from that date are 2 round headed windows in the north wall of the nave, an aumbry on the same wall to the right of the entrance, a pillar piscina with fluted capital and octagonal stem on the right side of the chancel apse and a limestone font with a fine bowl with sloping sides enriched with spiral roll and bead ornament

it has a late C14 window with 2 ogee trefoiled lights under a square head

a C15 east window of 3 similar lights and head

the other bay is similar to the chancel arch which was widened in C15 and has semi-octagonal jambs with moulded capitals and bases

the nave roof is of vaulted timber with C15 moulded tie beams with moulded bases, 2 of which are missing on the south side

The east window of the nave is C19, the 2 south windows are C14..with 4 trefoiled ogee-headed lights with semi-quatrefoils over, under a square head

The north doorway is probably a C15 insertion and is of a single hollow chamfered order with a 2-centred arch

The pulpit is C19 with pieces of C15 tracery and cresting

There is one C15 stone window of 2 ogee trefoiled lights on the west face, below which is a brick doorway with a door contemporary with the tower under a round arched head

There are two panelled chests preserved in the chancel, one with a sloping lid inscribed 'RH 1614', and another smaller one with the initials and date set with nails 'BL 1690 IT'. Monuments:- In the north chapel is an altar tomb with a black marble top to Richard Palmer of East Court 1670

On the south wall of the nave a small brass to Elizabeth Blighe, 1635 and above this a small brass with the figure of a lady and her child richly dressed

In the chancel floor is a black slab with 2 small brass inscriptions, the upper commemorating Richard Marsh, a citizen and grocer of London, who died in 1613, and the lower inscribed with a set of laudatory verses in Latin