Architectural Features
N doorway, C15 chancel
nave refenestration, C16 tower rebuild, and S aisle (RCHME)
EXTERIOR: square tower in 2 stages, with moulded string and parapet course, to bold crenellations and 4 gargoyles, short set-back buttresses with 2 offsets to the W, and deep plinth.
The W door is in a high pointed arch with C14 roll-mould surround, and under 2-light C14 cusped window.
There are crenellations, as to the tower, on 3 sides, and 3-light segmental-headed C15 windows in a wide casement moulding with labels to stops
that to the left of the porch has small carved figures as label stops, and the other has square stops.
The porch, with coped gable, has the stone eaves course, a C14 outer doorway on responds with foliage capitals, down one step to the stone floor with a stone bench each side.
to the right are remains of a mediaeval stoup, and in the left wall is a small image niche.
INTERIOR: the wide 4-bay nave has plastered walls, a heavy C14 double-chamfered tower arch, chancel arch including a wide double wave to keel edge, and arcade of 4-centred arches on piers of 4 shafts and 4 hollows.
The stone floor includes several large memorial slabs at the E end.
The chancel, on 2+2 steps, has mid C19 painted panelled barrel ceiling and coloured encaustic tile floor.
STAINED GLASS: chancel E window was replaced after destruction during World War II
The glass, formerly in Weymouth College Chapel incorporates musical notes.
Adjacent to pulpit is pictorial window to Charles Gaskell Falkner, d.1932, but inserted in 1949, by Stammers of York.
A carved wooden panel pulpit on a stone base. The Rev. C. F. Medcalf was vicar from 1908-30 and, with the help of some parishioners, set about the task of installing new woodwork in the church, including the pulpit, lychgate altar screen and reredos.
octagonal pulpit, communion rail, and reredos of c1930 by Revd CF Metcalf.
Square Purbeck marble font bowl of c1200 is set on a retooled base.
In common with some of the older parts of the church, this font appears to date from Norman times. The bowl is Purbeck Marble, with some damage thought to have occurred in the Commonwealth. The base is mediaeval.
MONUMENTS: include white marble tablet on black marble ground, on the N chancel wall, to Octavius Piers, 32 years pastor, d.1848, by Haggett
in the aisle a limestone monument to Charles Gill, d.1859, is in the form of an upright vesica piscis.