The Nave
Built in the 12th Century, the nave is unusually wide for the period. Both north and south main doorways have excellent examples of Norman arches.
The font at the west end is late 14th Century and octagonal in shape. It is well preserved and has a wooden lid.
There are five deeply splayed Norman windows high up in the nave, one large windows in the west wall and another large window in the south wall.
The west window deplicts the Nativity and Crucifixion and was donated by parishioners around 1926.
There are several memorials in the nave, many to members of the Southby family. Henry Southby of Carswell died in 1797 and left a trust for endowing and maintaining a School of Industry for girls and a Sunday School for boys. At that date, a Sunday School meant school on Sundays for boys who were at work on weekdays. The present school was built in 1857 and replaced the School of Industry which was in Orchard Road.
Above the tower arch is a timber gallery. The beam, balustrade and rail are dark oak. It is Jacobean and the balustrade is of the same design as the front of those pews nearest to the font. The gallery leads from the turret stairs to the bell ringing room.
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