St Cecilia

Flint rubble with stone dressings for nave, chancel and west tower: red brick for late C16 north transept and C19 vestry

Old red roof tiles to north transept and timber south porch, slates to nave and chancel

Walls of unaisled nave possibly dateable to C12 by semicircular inner arch of altered north door

Imposing late C14 west tower of three stages with diagonal buttresses, embattled parapet, short leaded spire with wind vane, and west door with two-centred arch within a square surround under a dripmould with carved heads as terminals

Similar dripmould terminals to three-light west window with marginal inscription in glazing 'Restituta AD 1845 Rectore T R'. C14 square-ended chancel of same width as nave with timber screen and change of roof height as only divisions

He refaced the east and south walls in flintwork and provided a new three-light east window, pine hammer-beam roof, seating, encaustic tile floor and steps, altar, carved stone reredos, iron altar rail, and small vestry on north (Marshall (nd) 6-7). Late C14, wide two-bay, open timber framed, gabled porch with trefoil heads to sidelights and heavy cusped bargeboard with central ogee

Large late C16 north transept in narrow red brick with tiled roof, diagonal buttresses, gable parapet, three-light arched windows in east and west walls, arched doorway with square surround on east wall and four-light north window with intersecting tracery

This converted the linear medieval church plan to a classic T-plan, Protestant auditory focused on the pulpit in the middle of the south wall

A tall octagonal pulpit with tester, dated 1633, now stands there, converted to a three-decker A layout plan of 1692 (HRO) shows much the present arrangement of pews except that the south east block now faces the altar

Carved arabesques in top row of wall panelling in transept and on south wall of nave

Low pitched C15 queen post roof to nave in four bays with moulded, cambered tie beams supported on long curved braces, with cusped, pierced spandrels, from wall posts, rising from sculptured stone corbels

Royal Arms with 'GR 1825' in centre of truss against west wall

Moulded oak C15 chancel screen with five narrow traceried lights each side of entrance, mullions carved as stepped buttresses, pomegranate scroll carved on rail of two panels each side of entrance, the rest left plain and mullions recessed for former altars on each side

Eight medieval tiles used as threshold in entrance (four more hung in vestry doorway). Late C14 piscina on south of altar

Octagonal stone font said to be C16