The chancel screen has a panelled dado, 2 main lights either side of the doorway, with arcading, and finials flanking a central gable with cross. Other chancel furnishings are mainly by Woodyer. Pointed commandment boards are on the west wall of the north aisle. The C17 communion rail is carved and has turned balusters. On the south side later benches have notional buttresses and were added in 1892. Contemporary with it are most of the benches, which have straight-headed ends with moulded tops. A west gallery by Daukes has a faceted front on posts. PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The tub font may be C12 in origin but was re-cut in the C19, under a tall concave canopy of 1949 by J.N. The nave has C19 red and black tiles with raised wood floors below benches, and the chancel has richer decorative tiles. In the south-east corner of the chancel is a corbelled piscina of 1892. The north aisle roof is also C19, 7½ bays with collar-beam trusses. The chancel roof is similar but C19 and is boarded over the sanctuary. The cradle roof of the nave is principally medieval, and has a single tie beam.
The chancel arch is in similar style but of 1892. INTERIOR: The 3-bay arcade has simple capitals to square abaci, and pointed arches, suggesting early C12 but altered c1200. Its round-headed north window has a re-used C12 window head. The vestry has a hipped roof and 4-light east window. On the north side a small round-headed C12 window is concealed by the valley of the vestry roof. In the south wall are renewed single-light pointed and straight-headed 2-light windows, to the left of which is a C19 projection with 3 lancets. The chancel has a 3-light Decorated east window above a low central buttress. It is inside a timber-framed porch on a dwarf wall, with cusped arcading to the side walls. The north doorway has a continuous chamfer. The C19 north aisle projects slightly forward at the west end and has 2-light Decorated windows. The square timber-framed bellcote has a pyramid roof on wide bracketed eaves.
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The three 2-light square-headed windows and the doorway are C16 but renewed at the same time. In the nave south wall is a single C12 round-headed window, unconvincingly restored in 1892. PLAN: Nave with north aisle, lower and narrower chancel, north vestry and north porch.ĮXTERIOR: A blocked round-headed arch in the west wall may have been a C12 tower arch, and is below a round traceried C19 window. MATERIALS: Limestone, laid as coursed rubble to the nave west wall, otherwise freestone, tile roofs. Parish church of C12-C16, restored 1859-60 by S.W.
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