St Mary The Virgin

Walls cement-rendered, probably of flint rubble, with limestone dressings, and some red brick in English bond, roofed with machine-made red clay tiles

Chancel, nave, W tower extension and S porch C15, N aisle late C15/early C16, N chapel late C19, N vestry and N hall C20.

The E window is C19, except the C15 splays, chamfered 2-centred rear-arch, and external moulded label.

The nave has a late C15/early C16 timber N arcade of 6 bays with moulded columns, each with 4 attached shafts, capitals and bases, all cut in the solid, and timber sub-bases

In the S wall are 3 windows, all C19 except the C15 chamfered segmental-pointed rear-arches.

Further W is the C15 S doorway with moulded jambs and 4-centred arch, and label with voluted stops.

Above it the barrel-vault roof is divided by 2 spiral-carved arch braces which together form a semicircular arch.

Aligned with the fifth column of the N arcade is a chamfered tie-beam, probably C19, supporting a C15 cross-quadrate crownpost with 4-way arched rising braces

Between the 2 western-most windows is a section of early C16 red brick wall and contemporary buttress, which last has been extended in the C19

in this wall is the early C16 N doorway of red brick, set in a slight projection crenellated at the top

In the W wall is a C15 window of 3 cinquefoiled lights in a segmental head, with a moulded label

The C15 S porch is in 2 bays.

All the rafters have gauging holes facing S. FITTINGS AND MONUMENTS: on the E wall of the chancel is a C15 stone bracket, semi-octagonal, moulded and carved with foliage and 2 defaced shields, moved from the N wall since the RCHM inspection.

The font has an octagonal bowl, moulded and carved with a quatrefoil in each face, with 3 heads and 5 flowers in the centres, and a C20 base and stem.

The C19 octagonal pulpit has an earlier stone base with 3 stone steps and moulded coping.

In the S porch is an indent for a brass, defaced.

In the W tower extension is (1), against the W wall, a monument to Elizabeth [Merrell], wife of Timothy Robinson, 1652

and (2), against the S wall, a limestone tablet or floor-slab of John Ashurst, 1676, and Eleanor his fourth wife, 1677, with shield of arms.

On the N wall of the N aisle are the arms of Charles I, painted on canvas in a moulded wooden frame, and on the N and W walls are 3 hatchments.

In the W extension are 12 early C17 pews with panelled backs and ends and moulded rails.