ST MARY. Dec chancel, the windows on the S side with spurs between the foils or cusps of the tracery. Pretty Dec chancel doorway with foliage decoration. Perp E window. Perp also the S aisle and S porch (outer doorway with fleuron decoration). Sturdy W tower formerly with a spire. Plain arcade with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. Hammerbeam roof, without hammer-posts. The arched braces rest directly on the hammerbeams. There are no collars either. - PULPIT. C18, with tester. Painted in imitation of inlay.*
* No longer extant.
CAPEL ST MARY. The Madonna greets us from her niche over the doorway of the fine 15th century porch, which has an embattled wood cornice and shelters an old studded door. Outside are queer little grotesques, one with a bunch of hops in its mouth; inside is splendid carving and glass. The east window is one of the delights of the village, showing in charming colours the four archangels: Michael with his spear in the dragon's mouth, Raphael leading a little boy, Oriel with a book, and Gabriel taking the good news to the Madonna. There is fine carving in the magnificent hammerbeam roofs, which add a touch of splendour to this little place, the nave roof having an exquisite choir of angels, some with harps and flutes and some with trumpets.
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