St Mary’s church has been a focus of village life for over 600 years. In all that time there have never been proper toilet facilities. That is about to change. Planning permission has been granted to install toilets and the hope is to also put in a small kitchen and additional storage making it easier to socialise as well as hold services and other more formal events.

There have been at least three major restorations of the building. In 1713 most of what we see today was built – apart from the tower which is much older. Then in 1895 the box pews that had been made in 1713 were taken out and made into the present pews; the north aisle was extended eastwards and today is occupied by the organ; an enormous amount of general refurbishment was also undertaken to adapt the building to the needs of the time. That work was done extremely sensitively, retaining and enhancing all that was best of the 1713 work. The building has been described as one of the best examples of a Georgian church outside London. Again in the 1980s large sums were spent restoring the church, especially the flat roof of the north aisle and the Georgian reredos at the east end. Today the village has a church building that is sound and cared for.