St Maragret

Plastered flint rubble with limestone dressings, W tower of red brick in English bond, roofs of handmade red clay tiles.

The Chancel, Nave and S porch are mid-C15, W tower early C16, with minor restoration of 1850.

The roof of the Chancel is C15, composed of 18 couples of 7 cants with scissor-braces formed of short timbers tenoned into the frames, with moulded wallplates.

The W tower is of red brick with diaper patterns in blue headers, built in 1519 for Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford (Morant).

There are 2 C15 piscinae, in the Chancel and the S wall of the Nave, each cinquefoiled with foiled drain and a wooden credence shelf, apparently original.

The head of the piscina in the Chancel is grooved for glass.

There is a C15 stoup in the E wall of the porch, with round head and restored bowl.

There are wall paintings in the Nave.

On the N wall is a representation of a timber-framed building with exposed close brick nogging in oblique patterns, tiled roof, and in the foreground a figure with a horse, mid or late C15.

Superimposed at the W side is conventional foliage, late C16.

On the S wall there are traces of a figure with diapered and quatrefoiled background, late C15,

conventional foliage and part of a black-letter text, late C16.

The font has an octagonal stem with recessed sides and moulded shafts and bases at the angles, and a base incorporating a step, C15.

The pulpit is early C17, octagonal with guilloche arcades in the panels, restored, and C19 turned shafts of marble.

There is C15 glass in the head of the E window, mostly tabernacle work, and fragments reset in the NE window of the Nave.

The S doors of the Nave are C15, with continuous curved and moulded edge-timbers, stiles and ledges rivetted at the crossings, and humped planks with C19 fillets.

There are 2 bells, the first by Miles Graye, 1607, the second by Thomas Gardiner, 1729.

Against the outside of the S wall of the Chancel there is a memorial slab to John Clerke, senior, 1681, and Anne his wife, 1692, with shield of arms

One which may be original is a small terracotta female figure in the outside W wall of the Nave, possibly the Countess of Oxford.

In the tower there is framed coat of arms of George III, dated 1764, with broken pediment, and a dado of late C16/early C17 panelling.

This church is remarkable in being entirely of the C15 (except the tower), with minimal restoration, and an interior unobstructed by monuments or late features.