The path led up a slope and past a row of pet's gravestones, and then through an iron gate in a wall to the church (a public building, but away from the rest of the village and appropriated into the area of the estate). The church was small, without a tower, mostly medieval construction but incorporating a lot of Saxon stone work. The village was the scene of recusant activity during the religious wars of the sixteenth century (a period known locally as The Big Gap) centrered on the church and manor house.