St Lawrence

It has an embattled parapet with moulding coping and carved gargoyles.

On the north side is a semi-hexagonal stair turret which rises above the tower parapet and has its own embattled parapet and gargoyles and is surmounted by a wrought iron weather vane.

SY0299 : Gargoyles on the church tower

© David Smith

The stair turret is lit by small quatrefoil lights and it includes a Beerstone image niche with a crocketted canopy and carved base.

It is very old and maybe C15.

The other window on the north side of the nave is a C16 or C17 2-light window of volcanic stone

The C15 porch between the 2 windows is gabled and has a 2-centred (almost round-headed) outer arch with moulded surround.

Interior: the nave has a good ceiled wagon roof with moulded ribs and purlins, good carved oak bosses and carved openwork wall plate.

Tall tower arch with Beerstone panelled soffit above imposts carved with foliage and featuring representations of the Green Man and other men holding their mouths open with their tongues hanging out.

The floor is tiled and includes some C17 and C18 grave slabs.

There is remains of a good late C15 oak chancel screen.

However it has a good coved vault in Gothic style and 2 bands of the delicately- carved frieze remain.

C19 Gothic style lectern and pulpit, the latter with fielded panels and crocketted pilasters on the corners. c19 plain pine benches.

The Norman font is made from a single block of volcanic stone

it is an unornamental girdled font of the simplest kind.

The oak ogee font-cover is C17.

There are no memorials in the church apart from a probably C13 stone coffin cover with a raised cross on it which is now fixed to the tower wall.

There is some C19 coloured glass in the tracery.