Architectural Features
C13 west door with 3 pairs of shafts supporting deeply cut mouldings.
Niche above with foiled arch beneath a triangular hood mould with carved head label stops.
North aisle with blocked C13 north door on a pair of shafts now missing and within a rectangular hood mould forming spandrels.
Late-Medieval 3-light west window.
2 3-light Perpendicular windows in angular style, one re-set C14 3-light reticulated window (probably in the position of a former chapel) and 3 3-light C19 windows in imitation of angular Perpendicular windows.
South with 4 3-light angular Perpendicular windows and one C14 wave-moulded doorway of 2 orders.
10 late- Medieval 2-light clearstorey windows.
C13 chancel with a rebuilt south wall incorporating a priest's doorway and 3-light window without tracery.
Very unusual C13 east window consisting of 3 lancets with an octofoil above, the whole within a moulded containing arch.
Damaged C14 stoup in south respond with broken tracery.
4-bay early C14 arcades of quatrefoil piers with intermediate fillets supporting plain chamfered arches of 2 orders.
East window with moulded scoinson arch flanked by 2 small C13 niches with blind quatrefoils.
Nave has a restored C15. arch braced roof with short king posts onto collars.
Former rood stair to south now leads to a projecting C19 pulpit in Decorated style.
C14 piscina beneath an ogee arch in south aisle.
Remains of C15 parclose screen and a late-Medieval cyclical wall painting in south aisle.
St Mary's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1270651 is located at the northern end of the village, above the primary school > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1270629 east of The Street > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1270521 - the main thoroughfare through the village. The building dates mainly from the 13th and 14th centuries but was restored in Victorian times.. It still houses a C13 Purbeck marble font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1966216 with shallow blank arcading, a (restored) C15 nave roof and the remains of a 15th century parclose screen in the south aisle > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1966204. The probably greatest treasure of the church is a medieval wall painting > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1966208 depicting the legend of St Catherine in a number of coloured panels. She was born in Alexandria and raised a pagan, but converted to Christianity in her late teens. She was condemned to death on the breaking wheel, an instrument of torture but according to legend the wheel broke when she touched it and she was consequently beheaded. St Catherine became one of the most influential saints in the religious culture of the late middle ages. Her principal symbol is the spiked wheel, which has become known as the Catherine wheel.