Architectural Features
Coursed rubble or dressed stone, some Portland, various roofings: slate to nave, stone slate to porch, tile to chancel, and lead, to aisles and vestry.
EXTERIOR: the tower is in 2 stages on a high plinth with moulded weathering, plain chamfered weathering at mid height, and crenellations, with gargoyles to each corner
The E end, said (VCH) to be the relocated C14 chancel arch, is in earlier masonry, and contains a 2-light Perpendicular window under a coped parapet at a very low pitch.
The chancel, with diagonal buttresses and coped gable with terminal Portland stone cross, has a 2-light window on the S side, deep-set 3-light to the E, and 4-light square-headed window set flush to the N. The N aisle and porch have C15 walls.
The inner opening has a fine mediaeval studded wide plank door, with diagonal planks inside, and on long strap hinges, all within a flat pointed segmental arch on hollow-mould jambs with stops.
The C19 roof is carried on the E side on a moulded plate, possibly of the C15.
The walls are plastered, with 2 Tudor roses painted on the N side, and the C19 roof, in 4 and a half bays, has painted braced king-post trusses.
The N aisle has plastered walls with the remains of three C16 painted texts from St Matthew and Proverbs
that to the left is partly covered by a monument.
A deep squint in the SE corner, and behind the altar position is a run of C17 panelling with guilloche frieze, c1.3m high, and 1.5m + 2.5m long.
The NE window has glass of 1889.
The S aisle has a roof identical with the N, glass of 1909 in the centre window, and a painted Royal Coat of Arms (Victoria).
The C15 tower arch has stone panelling to the intrados and jambs, on a high plinth, which returns across the W wall of the nave.
The hexagonal trussed rafter roof is on unplastered walls, and Minton tile floors, raised one step from the nave, and 1 step to the sanctuary plus a further step for the altar.
The E window is brightly coloured, but incorporates several panels of C17 Flemish glass, including a Crucifixion.
FITTINGS: plain late C19 pews, fine C17 seven-sided pulpit with 2 tiers of panelling,
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Flanking the tower arch, and near the lectern are 3 hanging panels in oak, approx 1m high, probably from a pulpit
they carry the figures of St Philip, St Peter, and St Bartholomew.
In the sanctuary are 2 small C17 chairs, and a larger one, in C17 style, made in 1907 from oak out of Winchester cathedral.
Near the porch, which has a C20 inner draught lobby, is a C17 alms chest.
MONUMENTS: there are several wall monuments, including a white marble tablet at the W end of the N aisle, to Anna Floyer, 1774, and a fine baroque tablet at the E end of the same, to Sarah Floyer, 1733.
On the chancel S wall a large white marble memorial to George Gould, 1841, of Fleetway House and Upway (sic), by Hopper, Wigmore Street