The Priest Door

On the south side of the church, near the bell tower, the priest’s doorway is sheltered by a little embattled porch of the late 1400s. Its arch has spandrels carved with foliage, little flowers in the arch moulding and a hoodmould resting upon carved corbel heads.

Inside, its ceiling is stone-panelled and studded with a variety of little flowers. The circular shafts and eastern supporting the inner doorway’s 1400s arch may well be 200 years older. A blocked doorway in the wall above gave access to the roof, and it has been suggested that this may have been used as an external pulpit. If so, this is a very rare survival