St Mary is locked with keyholders listed; unfortunately both times I've visited the keyholders have been out - I pass it on a fairly regular basis though so will persevere and one day I'll gain access.
Meanwhile you'll have to be content with its rather austere exterior.
UPDATE: I gained access in Sept 2011 but forgot to update the entry.
ST MARY. Flint and pebble rubble. A line of old lime trees as a screen to the N. W tower originally unbuttressed and with lancet windows. Later diagonal buttresses, Perp bell-openings and battlements. Chancel Dec with typical early C14 windows, the E window of three lights with reticulated tracery; renewed. The rest Perp. The Piscina and two niches l. and r. of the E window go with the chancel. So does the chancel arch (three-shaft responds with two very thin additional shafts between), the tower arch is triple-chamfered, dying into the jambs. - Original roofs in nave and transept. - SCREEN. Fragments in the tower arch. - BENCHES. Three plain ones with broad panelled buttresses on the fronts. - ROYAL ARMS. 1708.
UPDATE: I gained access in Sept 2011 but forgot to update the entry.
ST MARY. Flint and pebble rubble. A line of old lime trees as a screen to the N. W tower originally unbuttressed and with lancet windows. Later diagonal buttresses, Perp bell-openings and battlements. Chancel Dec with typical early C14 windows, the E window of three lights with reticulated tracery; renewed. The rest Perp. The Piscina and two niches l. and r. of the E window go with the chancel. So does the chancel arch (three-shaft responds with two very thin additional shafts between), the tower arch is triple-chamfered, dying into the jambs. - Original roofs in nave and transept. - SCREEN. Fragments in the tower arch. - BENCHES. Three plain ones with broad panelled buttresses on the fronts. - ROYAL ARMS. 1708.
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