The parish church of St. Mary, standing in the middle of the village, is built of flint rubble with stone dressings. The chancel roof is tiled, and that of the nave is covered with lead.
The church consists of a chancel, central tower, nave and south porch.
The original church, consisting of a chancel, nave and central tower, was built in the 12th century. The chancel was much altered in the 14th century, when a south transept, now demolished, was built on the south side of the tower. New windows were inserted in the nave in the 14th and 15th centuries, and the south doorway was altered about 1380, when the south porch was built. In the 17th century several small alterations were made, notably to the east window, and in 1883 the whole church was restored and the tower rebuilt from the foundations.
The chancel, of which the walls are probably part of the original church, now shows no detail earlier than c. 1330. The east window, which was originally of the 14th century, is now much defaced by 17th-century alterations. The remaining windows are all of the 15th century.
The east and west arches of the central tower are semicircular, of about 1130, and several of the stones are ornamented with a diaper pattern.
The nave is lighted on the north side by two windows, the easternmost of three lights with tracery above, of the 15th century. The 14th-century north doorway, to the west of both windows, is blocked, but on the outside its two-centred head and single-splayed jambs are visible, and the door, which is much defaced, is probably contemporary. On this wall are remains of painting, now quite undecipherable, which were discovered in 1883.
The south wall of the nave has two windows similar, and similarly arranged, to those on the north side. In the easternmost window are fragments of 15th-century glass with the arms of Lindsay. The south doorway, of about 1330, has a two-centred head. The south porch is of two stages, the ceiling of the lower stage having been removed, so that the porch is now open to the roof.
The tower has an embattled parapet and a needle spire. The buttresses at the north-west, south-east and south-west are original, as are those of the nave, but the large diagonal buttress at the north-east angle is modern.
The Cache
At the coordinates at the top of the page you will find an information board. On that notice board you will find that there was an earth and timber castle on the site, constructed between 11AB and 11CD. The cache can be found, after a short walk, at
N51 58.D(B-1)(A-D+7) W000 20.(A+D-C)(A-1)(B-A-D+2)
If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication.