The church has a nave with a three-bay S aisle
extending W a further bay alongside the tower and a
clerestorey on the S only, a N transept, and a S
doorway under a porch. The ashlar chancel, taller than the nave and with a steeply pitched roof,
was rebuilt in 1862. The W tower, dated to the late 13thc. by Pevsner, appears
earlier to the present author, and its windows are included in this report. The
tower has been certainly rebuilt, as it has a tall plinth course, W-facing buttresses and a 19thc. W
stair-turret. The aisle and porch and the N transept chapel too are 19thc. work, largely
faced in brick-sized blocks of red ashlar. Inside, it is apparent that the
tower arches were dramatically modified when the S aisle was rebuilt by J.
Manden in 1870. 12thc. material is present, but the arrangement is extremely
quirky. The tower now has arches to the nave and the extended S aisle. The S
wall of the tower is pierced by a 19thc. arch, supported by a half-column
respond at the W and a
cylindrical pier at the E. All of this is 19thc. work,
but the E pier has a reused foliage capital of c.1200.
Immediately to the E of this pier is another similar,
which forms the last pier of the 19thc. S
arcade. The E tower arch is also unusual. Its N
respond is a semi-quatrefoil
with a moulded capital, both 13thc., and on the S it is supported by a
quatrefoil
pier with a
similar capital, the pier positioned alongside the
double-pier at the E of the S arch. The SE angle of
the tower is thus supported by three piers. A further
complication is introduced by the wave profile of the E arch soffit; a motif which belongs neither to the 13thc. nor the
19thc. Described here are the S tower arch and the tower
windows.
