Architectural Features
Nave and chancel of red brick in English bond with plinth of re-used medieval masonry.
moulded stringcourse, angle gargoyles, coped embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles.
Nave/chancel: plinth (incorporating 2 fragments of C10 - Cll cross-shaft with interlace carving) with moulded brick cap
Very fine marble wall monument to Matthew Humberston of first half of C18, attributed to Rysbach or Sir Henry Cheere: Corinthian columns flanked by foliate scrolls and carrying open pediment surmounted by urn with garlands, over carved arms and arched niche containing half-size female mourner leaning on tablet bearing Humberston's portrait in relief, lower panel with carved scallops and scrolled brackets bearing inscription to Humberston who "was early advanced to Several places of Trust and profit in the Custom House whereby he acquired an ample Fortune with great honour and reputation...
He gave £1,000 to rebuild this church, £500 to build a School house and 6 Almshouses... and directed £300 to be layd out on a Monument in memory of him." Fine marble wall tablet to members of Humberston family, the latest being Thomas Humberston , "in Conformity to whose will this monument was erected": inscription with pilastered surround and moulded cornice carrying carved arms and urn with figures of Three Graces in relief against reddish-grey obelisk.
C18 painted Royal Arms and hatchments with Humberston arms in tower and nave.