St Mary Magdalene

late C14 and part rebuilt early C18.

Coursed sand- stone rubble with ashlar dressings, stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses with decorative ridge tiles and some gable-end parapets with cross finials.

Nave: circa 1200.

West end has a buttress with offsets at the south side, a C14 blind pointed archway and, above it, a 3- light C14 windows.

The clerestorey was added circa 1330 and has three square-headed 3-light windows and, at the western end, a pair of cusped ogee-arched lights.

The north aisle was added in the early C13 and widened and extended to the east by two bays in the late C13.

In the north elevation are four early C14 windows including a pair of cusped lancets, three stepped cusped lancets, a 2-light window and a single cusped lancet.

The south aisle is earlier, probably circa 1200 and probably represents the extent of the whole church at that time, the easternmost bay being a former chapel leading from the Norman chancel.

It has a lean-to roof and in the south wall are two square- headed 2-light C14 windows

a 3-light circa 1300 window.

At the east end is a pair of cusped lancets, also circa 1300.

The south porch is late C14 and gabled.

The late C14 south doorway has a four-centred head and moulded jambs.

Chancel: added circa 1300.

South arcade was cut through the former aisleless nave and has round arches with imposts and chamfered piers with carved stops.

The third pier from the west end is much larger and formerly stood between the Norman nave and chancel

it has a round-arched recess with a C14 moulding on the north side and an ogee-arched recess on the west side.

There is also a C14 ogee arched recess in the west side of the south-east respond.

The unmoulded easternmost arch is the original former opening to a chapel of the Norman chancel and at the very east end of the arcade are the C14 upper and lower doorways to the rood loft, both of which have square heads.

the three westernmost arches are C13 and have two-centred heads of two chamfered orders with octagonal columns and semi-circular responds.

The two easternmost arches are circa 1330

At the eastern end of the arcade is a C14 ogee arched squint.

There is an early C14 cusped piscina in the chancel

at the east end of the south aisle is a C13 cusped piscina.

Font is mid-C12 and among the best examples of the Herefordshire School (cf Castle Frome).

Upper and lower parts of bowl have bands of interlacing and main part has figure reliefs representing the Harrowing of Hell, two men fighting and a large lion.

There is a late C15 sallet

a late C16 combed helmet on the east wall of the nave.

Memorials: in south aisle to Alice Harper, died 1680, with segmental pediment and scrolled surround.

In north aisle are two mid-C18 monuments to the Barnesley family and in the chancel are two mid- C19 memorials to the Hodgson family, and four mid-C19 memorials, two at the east end with crocketted and finialed arched niches and flanking pinnacled buttresses to the Coke and Cockburn families.

There are also some C17 brasses - in the north aisle to Sydney Conyingesbye, died 1627, and Sir Humphrey Baskerville, died 1617, and in the nave to George Coke, died 1646, and Henry Harper, died 1687.

Also C14 coffin lid in tower and numerous ledger slabs, many of late C17 and early C18 date and also a broken circa 1400 one in the south aisle.