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Architectural Features

C14 S doorway, the rest of the dateable evidence is mostly C15

C16 including red handmade brick buttresses and windows probably of the C16.

EXTERIOR: The chancel has handmade brick diagonal buttresses and a good 3-light C16 E window of red brick with uncusped lights and, on the S side, two 2-light Tudor-arched brick windows with uncusped lights.

The W wall has been rebuilt in red brick but preserves a 2-light C14 window with reticulated tracery.

It has a medieval common rafter roof with straight diagonal braces from collar to rafter and a longitudinal tie below the collars.

C14 inner doorway with mass dials on the jambs and a late medieval door of overlapping planks incorporating 2 square iron grilles.

They are c. C15 but not shown on an 1820 watercolour of the church.

The tie beam has 3 scars on the front, perhaps associated with rood figures.

The nave has one tie beam and crown post truss with arched braces to the tie beams supported on mutilated carved stone angels.

The tower is an impressive structure, probably C15 and placed at the W end, with corner posts, posts flanking the W window, tie beams and arched braces.

Doorway from chancel to vestry has a medieval plank and cover strip door.

There is some medieval painted decoration on the S side of the chancel arch.

The pulpit is designed in the same style as the sanctuary rails.

It is timber and polygonal on short shafts, the pulpit with trefoil-headed openings on shafts with capitals.

C15 or C16 font with a deep octagonal stone bowl on an octagonal stem.

The C19 nave benches have convex shouldered ends and small sunk panels carved with quatrefoils.

Numerous floor slabs, mostly of the C18, some with brasses.

Wall monuments of various dates including an elegant bronze wall monument on a marble slab, to 2nd Lieut.

Some Flemish stained glass leaded into one of the N lancets

Good II* for a small evolved med church preserving medieval nave, chancel and porch roofs and a C15 timber-framed tower.

Interior fittings of interest include a C15 font and a numerous monuments.