St Faith

restored 1879-80 by Richard Norman Shaw for Robert Martin.

Nave: roof raised and aisles widened in C14 enclosing clerestory windows with the new aisle roofs

The north elevation has two 3-light C14 windows flanking the north doorway which is pointed and hollow chamfered.

The C12 south doorway has been reset in the C14 wall.

The central tower was rebuilt in the late C15.

There are diagonal corner buttresses with offsets, the south-west one has a curious carved reptile on it, and in the north-west buttress is the door to the tower stairs.

The north and south elevations of the lower stage have 3-light windows and small square-headed lights beneath the string (this string is carved with Tudor flowers at intervals) and in the south elevation is a narrow pointed doorway with moulded jambs.

The belfry stage has large square-headed bell chamber openings of four lights filled with elaborate pierced stone tracery of probable C17 date.

There are four gargoyles at the corners of the parapet string

Chancel: C13, altered C15 and has moulded plinth and sill string

The east window is C15 and of eight lights with a 4-centred head.

Beneath the sill string is an illegible memorial and in the gable apex are two rectangular lights.

The side elevations have a continuous hoodmould, string course just below eaves level and two C13 lancets, each lancet is richly moulded and has nook shafts with foliated capitals and moulded bases.

The tower arches are of two orders in C15 style and spanning the lower stage is a C19 quadripartite vault.

The chancel has a C13 quadripartite vault which has carved bosses and springs from attached vaulting shafts

The font has a C12 bowl carved with panels representing a priest, bishop, a Latin cross and dove and a scrolled foliated motif

the octagonal base is C14 and has a ballflower decoration.

The pulpit incorporates reused ornate woodwork from the C15 rood screen and the nave pews have C15 traceried panels.

There is a medieval coffin lid in the north aisle and two medieval tiles set in a south chancel window sill.

Memorials: in the nave are two memorials to the Martin family, one is late C18 by W Stephens, the other is early C19.

In the north aisle, two early C19 memorials, one to the Agge family surmounted by a grieving woman by Cooke of London.

A substantial medieval church with a particularly interesting and well-detailed Early English chancel.