Saint Martin Of Tours

plain clay tiles between coped gables, with bands of fish scale tiles to all but South Aisle

angled corner buttresses with a C19 version of a 4-light C14 traceried window.

South aisle has 3-light windows with pointed arches and labels having C15 pattern tracery: the South porch to bay-3 totally C19.

North aisle chapel apparently not a rebuild, but is of C16 date with tall flat-headed windows with labels of two cusped ogee heads each

North aisle of C19, with offset buttresses each bay and C14 style traceried pointed windows, with arched doorway opposite South porch.

plain pointed arched West door with window over having C15 type tracery, on South side a 2-light 'Y'-traceried jointed windows and to North a semi circular stair turret, tapered and rendered, with slit windows and conical stone slated roof

The interior mostly of C13 character.

Chancel has C19 scissor braced roof, transitional style arcades, C15 style chancel arch and C19 fittings.

North Chapel has timber ribbed barrel vault ceiling possibly of C17, a C15 style West arch, a cusped ogee head piscina.

Nave has transitional arcades, with some floriated bench ends, one dated 1633, a wood pulpit dated 1626

tower arch of C13 style.

Plaster barrel vault to South aisle, which has a crudely moulded tub font with simple recessed panel decoration, possibly c1250, and nearby a 3-panelled chest of C17.

In North aisle Chapel fine monument to the daughters of Sir John Portman, Bart, one of whom died 1661, consisting of two kneeling figures in segmental arched recess flanked by double Corinthian columns on corbelled base carrying full entablature and strapwork cartouche with the Portman arms.

The kneeling effigies of Grace and Elizabeth Portman, daughters of Sir John Portman, one of whom died in 1661. It was sculpted by Charles Regnart in 1791.

© Mike Searle

In North aisle crude early painting of church suggests this aisle much altered externally - little known of church history save that first recorded rector was in 1313.