Architectural Features
The present flint and stone church is mainly of the early C16.
The tower, which belonged to an earlier aisless church is C14
the lower part may be of the C15.
A chapel on the south side has C13 walls
a C15 vestry on the north, with moulded ceiling beams, has a priest's chamber above.
The interior has a particularly fine octagonal pulpit of circa 1500, with traceried valence.
According to a notice by this pulpit it states it as being dated to the 1400s and it is said to be one of the smallest in England at only 20 inches in diameter. St John the Baptist, Stoke by Clare, Suffolk.
Money was left for it in 1498 and it is said to have been given by Matthew Parker, the last Dean of the College of St John Baptist de Stoke and later Archbishop of Canterbury under Elizabeth I. There are C15 pews in the chancel, with traceried fronts and poppyhead bench ends.
There is a brass to Edward Talcarne and his wife