St Mary The Virgin

C15.

Plain tile roof to chancel and porches.

West tower: late C14 or early C15.

Nave: four C15 clerestorey windows, each of two cinquefoil-headed lights with squared head and hoodmould, to south elevation, and four to north.

South aisle: late C12 origin, re-fenestrated in late C14 or C15.

Gabled plain tile roof with bargeboards and pendant.

Pointed- arched doubly plain-chamfered C14 inner doorway, with broach stops and scroll-moulded hoodmould.

Chancel: C13.

one C14 with two ogee-headed lights, a quatrefoil in an ogival, squared head and hoodmould, two tall and one shorter pointed plain-chamfered lancets.

North chancel chapel: C15.

North aisle: late C12 origin, re-fenestrated in late C14 or C15.

North porch: flint, with plain tile roof.

Moulded pointed-arched late C13 or early C14 inner doorway, with undercut hoodmould (partly restored in wood) angled up at the ends with scrolled stops.

Boarded medieval double doors.

Interior: structure: four-bay late C12 north and south arcades to nave, of bevelled pointed arches with bar-and-ogee stops, each arch with a moulded hoodmould.

Broad pointed C14 chancel arch of two plain-chamfered orders, the inner order springing from a moulded image corbel.

Late C14 or early C15 doubly hollow-chamfered pointed arch springing from moulded semi-octagonal columns, between chancel and north chancel chapel.

Pointed C14 or early C15 tower arch, outer moulding descending to ground with broach stops, inner springing each side from engaged semi-octagonal column with moulded capital and base.

C14 roof to north aisle, with three horizontal tie-beams between pendant posts.

Heptagonal pulpit with traceried panels, offsetts to corners, and moulded base and cornice.

Cylindrical font with deeply-chamfered bowl, short shaft, and ashlared base.

C17 altar table with turned legs and shaped aprons.

Fittings, in a late C17 style, introduced by F.C. Eden, including black-and-white marble floor to sanctuary, nave pews with integral rear foot-ledge and inlaid scrolled supports, eight turned and enriched stalls to chancel, raised and moulded marquetry panelling with festoons, cherubs' heads, and inlaid double sedilia, tosmctuary, canopied reredos painted in L90? by J. Ripley Wilmer, canopied altars to north chancel chapel and south aisle, panelling in a C17 style with strapwork frieze dated 1924 round outer walls of chapel and aisles, north chapel screen of 1917 with open-topped segmental pediment, inlaid organ loft and enriched organ case, paintings, gilded candlesticks etc. Faldstool 1767.

C15 alabaster tripych in south aisle.

Hewn wooden chest, said to be C13.

Set of eight C17 or C18 text boards to nave.

Decoration: medieval wall-painting to north- east pier of nave, a geometrical design in red on a cream ground.

C17 or C18 painted text with gold oak-leaf surround, to same pier.

Two C16 Netherlandish stained-glass roundels in east window of north chancel chapel,

some C15 heraldic glass.

Monuments: fragment of a (?fan-) vaulted medieval stone canopy with green and red-painted pinnacles, against east pier of north nave arcade.

Rest of monument replaced by small C18-style fluted, reeded and enriched stone altar with a shelly marble slab.