The church consists of a Nave, Chancel with North Vestry and West Tower built mainly of flint. 

The Tower is of two stages with diagonal buttresses and a plain parapet, and has small lancet-type openings above the main bell-openings.  The North and South walls consist of the original mid-13th Century arcade pillars in the Early English style of architecture, with the spaces between infilled with flint and brick.  

The original aisled Church probably dates from mid 13th century. At some stage subsequently it is thought that Transepts and a Porch were added. The present Chancel was constructed circa 1310. 

The West Tower was built in the Decorated style in about 14th Century. New windows were inserted in North and South walls in the Perpendicular style in about the 15th Century. 

In the late 18th Century the Aisles and Transepts were probably demolished, the arcades were blocked up and nave roof lowered. Four of the Perpendicular North and South aisle windows were reset in the present North and South walls. It is known that the aisles were still there in 1734 (see end of notes) but had gone by the 1820s when Robert Ladbrooke made a drawing of the church.  Click here for a map

It is recorded that in 1849 there was a gallery in the church, probably at the west end. 

The churchwardens’ accounts of 1850 make reference to a charge for ‘repairing the stone heads’ (the stone corbel-heads supporting the roof timbers). 

In 1868, the living was a rectory in the Diocese of Norwich, annexed to that of Saxlingham. 

In 1880, there were restoration works including raising the chancel roof and providing the present roof which is continuous over both nave and chancel. (The 1976 church guidebook says that the chancel was also widened.) The main church fittings date from this time (or from the 1908 restoration) and the floor was tiled. 

In 1908 the brick North vestry was probably added, though there are claims that the vestry was rebuilt in 1880. Work may also have been done in 1908 on the carved stone corbels. 

The main feature of interest in the Church is the set of 19 carved corbel-heads supporting the principal rafters.  Each head is different but similar heads are paired on some of the roof trusses.  They probably date from the original 13th Century or 14th Century roof, though those at the East end may be of much later date as the original roof was not continuous over nave and chancel. 

The continuous roof over nave and chancel, dating from the 1880 restoration, consists of plain rafters with every sixth being a Principal, the latter supported by wall posts with arch-braces, in turn resting on the carved corbel-heads.  Continuous ridge-piece, purlins and wall-plate. 

Other features in the church are as follows:

a carved octagonal stone font on wide octagonal stem, containing panels carved with shields, roses etc, with a carved wooden cover presented to mark the Millennium;  

a carved octagonal wooden pulpit with two tiers of panels with blind tracery, and a base of the same width having open traceried quatrefoils; 

a carved wooden lectern with quatrefoil design on cruciform base;  

a wooden altar with three open-work panels each with an upright Greek cross, the left panel having Α in centre and the right one having the Ω in centre. Centre one has IHS monogram and  

a Piscina with single fluted bowl and central drain, under ogee-headed canopy.  

Wooden nave pews dating either from 1880 or 1908, four on each side at the W end having poppy-heads preserved from 15C or 16C pews. 

The Royal arms above the tower arch date from between 1714 and 1801.  Above and to the North of this is a blocked doorway (i.e. on the East face of the tower), most likely having given access to a West gallery which is known to have existed in 1849, or possibly having been installed to enable a clerk to watch the progress of the Mass and ring the bell at the Sanctus. 

By 1523, it is known that there were three chantry priests in addition to the rector.

Three bells were installed in 1552 but these have obviously been removed at some time unknown after 1734 (see below). 

The present bell (now the only one surviving) was cast in 1715 by Thomas Newman of Norwich.

In 1734, Thomas Martin of Palgrave, a Suffolk antiquary, described the church as follows: “A square steeple with four bells, church, two aisles, and cross-aisles” (i.e. transepts), “leaded. A north vestry, decayed. Chancel tiled. A new north porch built with brick.” He also seems to have suggested that the rood screen was still in place at this time.