St James

The chancel has a C13 lancet: window on the north, 2, later lancets on the south, and a C19 3-light east window with intersecting tracery.

C13 south aisle: 2 Y-tracery windows and one Perpendicular, 2- light, square-headed.

The interior of the church is considerably Victorianised, with benches, lectern, screen and chancel fittings mainly C19.

The splay of a Norman slit window in the north wall of the nave.

Late C13 arcade in 4 bays with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches

Square C12 font of Purbeck marble with very worn shallow blank arcading round the bowl, a large central shaft and 4 smaller corner. shafts on a fluted base with a later base below that.

Tall suspended C15 font cover.

At the rear of the nave, a section of C14 rood screen, the 5 lights, divided by shafts with moulded capitals and bases, with cusped trefoil heads

Square C17 pulpit with applied panels, guilloche and other ornament.

Restored C13 angle piscina and remains of sedilia.

Verse inscription d. 1601 to William Grudgefield in the sanctuary

3 black ledger slabs to members of the Green family, C17, in the nave.

Fragments of old glass in the heads of the nave windows.

On the north wall of the nave, 2 figures, a man and a woman, taken from the C15 brass on the nave floor.

The brass plate bears the names of 8 men lost in WW1. Another plate records Ben HUNTER, the only man killed in the war to be buried in the parish. The Rood screen forms part of the Memorial. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4391213

© Adrian S Pye