St Mary The Virgin

Restorations in C17 and C18 also in 1897-8 by Paley and Austin (Pevsner).

The chancel and south aisle windows are Perpendicular whereas the north aisle windows have C14 cusped intersecting tracery.

The south nave entrance is surmounted by an ogee arch, in C14 style

the north nave entrance opposite appears to be C13.

The chancel open-work parapet and gable cresting is a striking C17 restoration and the nave solid parapet, with crocketed pinnacles, set at an angle and supported by corbels with faces, is also unusual.

A recess in the north chancel wall contains a headstone of a parishioner from Cholmondeston, dated 1671.

Interior: The west tower entrance leads into a narthex flanked and fronted by C13 tower arches.

The nave has 4-bay arcades with octagonal C13 piers and late C19 capitals.

The chancel arch, which is moulded to floor level, is C14.

The Communion Rail has splat balusters and there is Jacobean Oak dado panelling, once part of a rood screen, between the communion rail and the choir

The chancel stained glass east window is of 1886 by Kempe.

The carved oak pulpit, on stone base, and oak eagle lectern are C19.

In the north aisle there is a recessed tomb-chest, with elaborate stone panelling and shields, and an alabaster effigy of Sir William Mainwaring, who died 1399.

In the south aisle there is a black, white and grey marble tomb chest supporting recumbent effigies of Sir Richard Wilbraham, who died 1643, and his wife who died 1660.

There is a good tablet memorial to Mary Wilbraham, who died 1632, in the south-west chapel.

There are a number of good wall memorials in the chancel.

The upper section of the round font, at the west end of the nave, is Norman.

It has alternate flower and figure decorations.

There are also a number of carved Norman stones at the east end of the south aisle.