Architectural Features
Tall tower mainly of flint with C15 added bellstage: diagonal stepped buttresses with flint flushwork, stone plinth
embattled parapet with flint flushwork panels and limestone shields, south face with ashlar panels, crocketted pinnacles to each angle, string course below parapet with gargoyles to north, west and south.
Clerestoreys to north and south nave alike: broken flint and brick mosaic, 4 3-light windows with panel tracery under 4-centred arches, figure stops to hood moulds.
north doorway with stoup to left, mouldings to head of doorway and figure stops renewed.
Early English south doorway of 3 orders, each with slender side shafts, deeply moulded arches, second order with dogstooth moulding, hood mould with figure stops.
C14 openings of 3 trefoil headed lights, those to south transept with large cusped cinquefoil over lower central light, those to north transept each under a trefoil.
C13 east window with fishscale tracery inserted c.1889
south and north lights renewed c.1889 in Decorated style, all of 2 lights under quatrefoils or trefoils, some with figure stops
north with gabled vestry of flint with gault brick dressings, C19 2-light window with datestone of 1631 below.
slender quatre- foil piers those to south and first bay of north transept having C13 shafts with recessed angles to appear detached, double chamfered arches
Tall C15 tower arch with continuous moulding, semi-circular jambs.
South aisle with string course, window rear arches with slender shafts having figure or foliage stops, moulded pointed segmental arch with foliage stops to rear arch of doorway, consecration cross.
Chancel: screen with C15 panels painted with floral diaper pattern, C19 muntins and loft
Six misericord stalls to rear of screen.
Wide fronts of stalls and their left and right returns having Decorated tracery to panels and carved ends depicting the evangelists' symbols and mythical creatures.
Nave: queen post roof c.1895 with wall posts and traceried spandrels, carved leaf bosses
octagonal font with facetted faces supported by 5 Early English colonettes
St Botolph's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936819 is situated on an elevation in the heart of the village, right beside the B1153 road. Extensively restored in Victorian times it retains the C14 font and a painted rood screen dado > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936828. A number of C15 benchmarks depict a mermaid > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936831 - a cockerel > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936834 and a poacher in the stocks > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936837 - amongst others.