St Helen

C17 fenestration, and restoration 1869-71 by Sir G G Scott.

Coursed limestone rubble and cobbles, tile roof.

The doorhead is carved with a scallop shell design and the date 1633.

West wall: tall (restored) C12 window and a circular window above.

The north aisle has a row of weathered carved stones, not in situ, including shields

the south aisle has a re-set narrow Saxon/Norman-style window.

original north and south exterior walls are visible from the north aisle and south chapel and the eaves corbels are carved with faces, animals and birds.

Carved stone remains include part of a Saxon cross against the west wall, an unweathered wrinkled face on a north window sill

3 fragments of C10 Anglo-Danish crosses decorated with figures and interlace in the south chapel, and a fine monument of c1400 in the north chancel aisle depicting a woman with feet on a dog and hands holding a bird and wearing her hair in a plait held in place by a decorated band.

The font is a large plain bowl on an octagonal stem

the altar table is C16-C17, the legs decorated in the form of Ionic columns.

The eagle lectern has a C17 body and 1869 feet, wings and head.

The Saxon remains were discovered in the walling during the 1869 restoration

The church probably had a bell tower in the C17.