St Mary The Virgin

Nave early Cll, chancel C12, W tower C14, S porch early C16, all well restored in C19.

In the E wall are 3 lancet windows of c.1200 with chamfered jambs and heads.

In the N wall are 2 small C12 windows with chamfered jambs and semi-circular heads.

In the S wall are 2 large lancet windows, early C13, chamfered and rebated outside, restored.

The eastern window is higher in the wall than the other, and below it there is an early C16 doorway with square head, moulded wooden frame and plain boarded door, blocked internally.

At the W end there is a single cambered tiebeam, moulded and crenellated, C16.

The nave has 2 N windows, the eastern C15, of 2 cinquefoiled lights under a square head with double-convex moulded splays and a segmental-pointed rear-arch

the western window is C16, of 2 plain lights under a square outer order, of brick externally.

In the S wall are 2 C15 windows, each of 2 cinquefoiled lights

the western originally had tracery in a 2-centred head, but the upper part was altered to a segmental head when the roof was rebuilt c.1500.

The tympanum has an irregular design of low- relief carvings - 2 square interlacing patterns of different sizes, a band of interlacing arches and a band of half-flowers.

Asymmetrically superimposed is an outer doorway, C12, with nook-shafts and scalloped capitals

Outside, immediately E of the doorway, is a plain stoup, C16, with Tudor arch, chamfered jambs and cylindrical well, the projecting part broken off.

At the W end of the nave there are diagonal buttresses, C14.

The roof is in 5 bays, of double hammerbeam construction with simple pierced tracery in the spandrels and carved pendants in the middle of each truss, c.1500

the wallplates are carved with running foliage.

The square W tower, C14, is built in 3 stages with diagonal buttresses and a low-pitched pyramidal roof with projecting eaves, probably original.

The bell-chamber has in each wall a window originally of 2 trefoiled lights in a square head, much altered, with C16 brick jambs.

The S porch is of red brick, English bond, early C16, with a plain 2-light window in each side wall and a 4-centred archway of 2 continuously chamfered orders, restored.

There are 3 bells, the first C15, inscribed "Sancte Gabriel", possibly by John Sturdy, the second by Miles Graye, 1617, the third by Miles GraYe, 1661.

There are 2 reversed shield of heraldic glass in the SE window of the nave, late C15, representing Harsicke and Doreward.

In the porch there are floor slabs to (1) Radclyffe Hall, 1675, and (2) (Martha) wife of Radclyffe Todd and (Thomas) Ferrand, 1679, defaced.

In the chancel there are floor slabs to (1) Thomas Ferrand, 1680, and (2) Thomas Ferrand, 1712.

This is a good example of a simple parish church of early date, well maintained, its character unaffected by elaborate fittings or monuments.