This tiny church was built on the site of a Roman settlement and incorporates Roman wall tiles in its construction, often in herring bone patterns. The interior feels ancient with the Norman chancel arch being supported on Saxon pillars.
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While I found the church itself rather lacking in character I was very taken with the tiny vestry (probably added in the mid 19th century) and had a vision of a poor Victorian cleric sat at the table with a couple of candles, struggling to write his sermon on a bitterly cold evening. There is no fireplace.
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I noticed that one of the two roles of honour was nearly falling out of its frame so I moved it to the table. While I did not study them in detail, the fact that there were over twenty names of young men from such a small rural community is both a reminder of how many worked on the land prior to WW1 and how many of these were killed.
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More memories, of times when church life was active, were associated with the bell ropes and the marks made on the Norman door arch and the delightful four stop organ.
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The cheap little letter rack seemed to sum up this bleak, forgotten posting for both young curates and Roman soldiers.
