St Mary (church Of England)

in late C15 SE chapel added, S aisle altered, nave heightened, new roofs to nave and aisle, and E wall of nave removed for a rood-screen

Steep pitched old red tile roofs but copper lean-to roof to S aisle and truncated lead spike to tower

Tile-hung gables to SE Chapel

Windows and roofs largely perpendicular but deeply splayed small round-headed Cll window in N wall of chancel, 2 early C13 lancets flanking the altar, and an early C16 low-side window at NW of chancel with grotesque external detail

The chancel has a 4-light C15 E window, a boarded waggon ceiling with moulded battens, elaborate Easter Sepulchre to N of altar with quatrefoil spandrels between crocketed ogee arch and embattled cresting with panelled buttresses, 8-foiled piscina to S of altar, and polychrome encaustic tiled floor

C15 moulded roof, 3-light cinquefoil C15 E window under low eliptical head, and 2-light S window altered in C17

The nave has a steep pitched C15 open timber roof of 3 bays with moulded members, queen-post trusses supported by curved braces form wallposts to cambered tie-beams, arched braces from queen-posts to collars, 3 butt-purlins to each slope and 2 ranges of arched wind-bracing

N wall has 2 C15 3-light windows flanking the blocked C15 N door with continuously moulded opening

Mid C14 3-bay S arcade with octagonal piers, moulded capitals and 2-centred arches

Late C14 tower arch of 2 moulded orders has semi-octagonal jamb shafts and the capitals extended to E as moulded bands

The S-aisle has 2-light late C15 S and W windows and S door with armorial shields in cusped spandrels, externally, between a 2-centred arch and square outer order

Sloping moulded C15 lean-to roof to aisle

Stained glass in porch c1913 by Morris and Co of 4 evangelists

Late C15 octagonal font with plain cardinal faces but shield-in-quatrefoil on angled faces

C17 poorbox in form of a short square oak pillar

Stock-lock to heavy C17 oak S door

Fine canopied altar-tomb in Purbeck (or Bethersden) marble c1508 to Sir Robert Clifford in SE chapel with brass inlay figures, still retaining some coloured infillat back under a depressed arch with quatrefoil frieze and top cresting

Brass c1500 on N wall of nave

Wall monuments: on E wall of chapel to Elizabeth Freman d.1623 a marble aedicule, pilastered, with hatchment in panel above

on S wall of aisle a wall monument erected in 1702 incorporating twin frontal bronze busts of brothers Sir Ralph Freman d.1634 and William d.1623 saved from St Martin's Cornhill after the great fire of London

and also a neo-classical wall monument to John Boldero d.1789 of inlaid marble with an urn

Externally, on the S wall of the chapel a monument to his parents d.1645 and 1665 by Seth Ward Bishop of Salisbury, on the W wall of the aisle a tablet to Mary Cator who left money for a free school

A small medieval church, little altered, of outstanding interest for the SE chapel, roofs, Easter Sepulchre, and fine monuments.