The church of Saint Pandionia and Saint John the Baptist, to be precise, looks impressive from the main road across the open churchyard, until you see that the chancel has been rebuilt in brick, with the original pitch of the roof still visible. The south side of the tower is plain, with the 'tall shed' encasing the weights for the clock, which take one week to fall the distance. Inside, the chancel and the organ look new and out of place against the decaying plasterwork. The north transept chapel houses the beheaded memorials of two C13th people, man and wife, presumably. The man responsible for disfiguring them was Robert Palmer, the vicar in Elizabethan times. What looks like an original arch is now built into the chapel wall. The Roll of Honour lists those who went to war, and not just the dead, or whole families would have been wiped out.
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