Seven centuries old, and in a garden blooming with flowers in due season, the church has a Tudor porch and a Tudor tower. It has lost its ancient wall-painting but keeps its ancient bell. A water colour of the painting hangs in the aisle; the original fell away after being recovered from many coats of whitewash. The old bell stands under the west window, ringing no more.

The oldest part of the walls is on the north side of the chancel arch, where there is 12th century carving. Long ago the chapel and the chancel were two places, used by two parishes and divided by a wall; in the 16th century the wall was transformed into a fine arch and became part of the Tudor church. There is a curious pillar which forms part of the chancel arch and nave arcades; it is of Purbeck marble and unlike any of the other pillars, evidently a misfit and much too short, for a long upper capital has been added to it. There is a tub-shaped font and a Jacobean pulpit and table. For altar rails the church has some delightful old carved benches, black and polished with age. A glass case on the wall holds a strange relic found when the roof was repaired in the last century, a finely carved wooden model in miniature of the Hands of Our Lord, bearing the prints of the nails.

Text courtesy of: Southern Life (UK)