Architectural Features
Early C16 arcade, otherwise all of 1844-5 by John Hayward.
Battlemented with corner pinnacles(now partially dismantled), with a stringcourse with gargoyles below the parapet.
Interior: early-C16 5-bay arcade, the west bay much narrower than the others
deep moulding to piers, and capitals with roses and shield-bearing angels, some of these very primitive in execution.
Open wagon roofs throughout, those to the nave and aisle possibly retaining some medieval bosses, and part of a wall plate.
Stone polygonal font, quatrefoil panels with pinnacled font cover.
Pulpit, stone, polygonal, the stiles with finialed pinnacles, the panel with finialed canopies containing saints, all carved by John Thomas (who also carved the figure of St Michael in the tower niche).
Stencilled wall decorations, painted roof members, all over floor tiles, decorative tiles also to the risers of the sanctuary steps, and to the east wall up to the level of the altar table (which is also contemporary)
The stone sculptor at work here - John Thomas - so impressed the architect Sir Charles Barry that he was engaged to superintend the stone carving of the Houses of Parliament.
R Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660-1851 (revised ed.in.d), pp.388-9.