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This beautiful entrance porch is divided by pinnacled buttresses into two bays, each containing two windows of two lights. The exterior view shows the well-balanced proportions of the design of the fourteenth century builders.

The interior exhibits three styles: the doorway into the Church belongs to the Early English period (1240); the porch itself is Early Perpendicular (1380); and the vaulting is Late Perpendicular (1520).

Some of the bosses at the intersections of ribs of the vaulting exhibit the humour of the caricaturist. The custom of putting out the tongue by way of insult is, it would appear, not new.

The exit door from the porch has been extensively renewed. The porch was a multi-purpose part of the church in earlier times.

Over the course of time the porch doorway has been extensively renewed, and is now surrounded by a large amount of carving and with grotesque heads placed in a large hollow, one on each side of the entrance.