Architectural Features
Flint with ashlar dressings, and plain tile roof.
1320 windows, cusped 'Y'-tracery at east, three 2-light windows on north wall with mouchettes over, and with split-cusped trefoils and linking bars to west windows.
Chancel with arch through to aisle, with carved head stops to hood mould, and crown post and plastered roof.
The west respond now shows Romanesque carving of c.
1190, showing St. Martial ordaining a deacon, with inscription: SANCTUS MARCIALIS PIUS PATRONCUS.
Monuments: 2 brasses, now at the west end, both made c.
1420, to Sir Arnold and Lady Joan Savage, and Sir Arnold Savage, d.
Both damaged, the former with canopy gone, the latter with figure mutilated.
On south wall, brass to Joan Bourne, d.
South nave wall, hanging monument to Charles and Francis Tufton, d.
In the north aisle, a similar black and white wall monument to Henry Sandford of Bobbing Court, d.
1660, and his wife Elizabeth.
Stained glass: fragments in north-east window of aisle, early C14 details of plants.
Associations: church records state in 1672 " our minister is gone to sea".
In fact, the minister was Titus Oates, fleeing justice, before his later success in fabricating the Popish Plot of 1678.