The church of St.
Mary, which stands at the south-east end of the village, consists
of chancel, north chapel, south vestry and organ chamber, nave,
north aisle, south porch and west tower. The church is built of
flint rubble with stone dressings. The roofs are tiled.
The church was
extensively restored and altered in 1845, and in 1890 it was
practically rebuilt. The chancel and possibly the nave walls were
built in the 13th century, the north aisle and west tower being
added in the 15th century.
The three
13th-century grouped windows in the east wall of the chancel
consist each of a single lancet having moulded arches and shafted
jambs with moulded capitals and bases. The moulded labels have head
stops. The external stonework is modern. In the chancel is a double
piscina, part of the eastern jamb of which is original; it is of
13th-century date and has moulded and shafted jambs enriched with
the dog-tooth ornament. The head and jamb stones of two windows in
the north aisle, which are each of two cinquefoiled lights with a
quatrefoil opening in the head, are of 15th-century date, as are
parts of another window in the same wall, of two lights under a
square head; a similar window in the south wall opposite is
probably a little later. Two jamb stones of the south doorway and
the lofty four-centred and moulded tower arch are also of
15th-century date. The buttressed tower is of three stages with
embattled parapet and leaded spire. Some parts of the belfry
windows may be original. All the other detail in the church is
modern.
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