Architectural Features
Above there is a continuous band with a four-light flat headed C15 window over, which has trefoil headed lights and incised spandrels, plus a long dripmould.
North elevation of the nave has a slightly advanced section of stone work to west end with a much restored C12 door, which has two roll-moulded orders and one plain with figurative capitals to the nook shafts.
To east, the aisle has C12 continuous sill band with three flat C12 buttresses below, up to the last bay of the nave which is plain.
Above there are four C15 three-light windows with trefoil headed lights and incised spandrels.
Above again there are five C12 roll-moulded semicircular headed clerestory windows with scalloped capitals.
South nave elevation is similar except there are four C12 buttresses below the sill band and a blocked C19 door to the east end of the aisle.
Above the clerestory has five early C13 double pointed lancets.
North elevation has a central C12 window, similar to those to the towers with figurative capitals.
a three-light C15 window, similar to those in the north aisle above.
Southern transept has similar south elevation as north elevation of northern transept, except that the western corner has a C12 buttress with small staircase windows in.
West elevation of the south transept has one C12 window at clerestory level, similar to the northern ones and the east elevation has similar blocked C12 arch to base but with a C19 geometric tracery window within and with C12 plain window above.
Above both transepts is the central crossing tower which has attached C12 shafts to each corner up to the top of the original C12 tower, those to south side are less mutilated than those to north.
Northern side has a later clock face in moulded stone surround and the east side has two tiers of three semicircular C12 openings which would originally looked in to the C12 chancel, those to lower tier have a large plain opening to centre with narrower roll-moulded stilted arches to either side and to those above are of similar size and all plain.
This has a chamfered sill band with single, double-chamfered pointed, louvred bell opening, plus returned hoodmould to each side and a coved string course with central gargoyles below embattled parapets.
To east each side has a C12 window, similar to those to the transepts and beyond there are flat C12 buttresses.
Beyond again the original C12 stonework curves inward and disappears into the later stonework, which has stepped clasping buttresses with cyma reversa moulded copings to eastern corners.
East elevation has a central five-light C17 window with stepped trefoil headed lights and a returned hoodmould.
INTERIOR has five bay north and south arcades of C12 stilted chevron and roll-moulded semi-circular headed arches on large plain columns with angle spurred bases and scalloped or volute capitals.
Northern clerestory passage has a C12 arrangement with stepped tripartite openings of semicircular-headed roll -moulded arches on plain columns with scallop capitals.
Southern clerestory has early C13 arrangement with double pointed roll moulded arches on central column, plus moulded capital, except for the eastern bay which has one small semicircular arch attached to the east of the C13 opening.
To west end of the nave the narthex has a central C12 arch with similar mouldings to the nave arches, set on compound piers.
All C12 windows have similar internal mouldings.
Similar arches to other sides of the crossing tower, with carved capitals and bases towards the chancel.
Nave aisles and transepts have continuous C12 sill bands and transepts have similar band at clerestory level.
Chancel roof is C16 and other roofs are C19 copies.
Nave has C19 pews with quatrefoils on the bench ends and an octagonal stone pulpit of similar date with four polished marble colonnettes round central stem and carved heads in roundels to each side.
Font in the narthex has large C12 circular stone bowl set on four square columns and central stem, with C19 font cover.
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North side of the crossing arch has a fragment of C13 wall painting.
There are six diamond shaped painted hatchments from C19 to the Coke/Melbourne family, two in the chancel, one over each transept arch from the aisles and two more in the north aisle.
The chancel has one slate and white marble memorial to Rev Middleton who died 1830 and the crossing has one small mosaiced memorial to Frank Elms of c1914.
North transept chapel has several wall memorials to the Cantrell family, three early C19 slate and white marble memorials with Gothick aedicules and one brass memorial dated 1890.
In the south transept there is an early C14 tomb niche with effigy
there are also three early C17 marble slabs to the Hardinge family.
North aisle has one circular memorial with moulded alabaster surround and slate plaque to Mary Godkin, who died 1783, and four early C20 memorials, three mosaiced ones to the Tasker family, and one in slate and white marble to John Knight who died 1900.
To west end of the aisle there is a war memorial and beneath the arch into the tower is a simple stone plaque to Sir Roger Curtis who died 1954.
West side of the north tower has an inset C13 child's coffin lid and an C18 gravestone to Richard Dalman.
South aisle has one slate and white marble memorial to the Briggs children, who all died in 1846 and another similar one to Penelope Lowe, who died 1830.
There is also a fine painted stone memorial to William and Isabel Dawson who died c1614, which has a bowed inscribed plaque set in elaborate strapwork surround with columns to sides topped by steeple finials.
West end of the aisle has one early C19 slate and coloured marble wall memorial to John Pasteur and wife of c1819.
There are several stained glass windows but none of any age.
The chancel windows all have stained glass of c1870, those to east and south in Chartres style.
Stained glass in north chapel has all been dedicated, that to upper east window to Leonard Robin of c1918, those to upper north windows in pre-Raphaelite style to H Cantrell of c1909 and lower north window of c1862 to Joseph Cantrell.
North aisle has stained glass war memorial window and one window dated MDCCCCXXIL.
The one stained glass window in the south aisle is dedicated to Thomas Haines, who died 1869.
Chancel originally had an apsidal east end and flanking apsidal chapels to the transepts, a plan type reminiscent of the Carolingian tradition which has led people to assume that the church was planned much earlier than 1133, although it is unlikely that such a grand building would have been erected without important ecclesiastical backing.