The south doorway is the oldest part of the church that you can touch. Built in the twelfth century, its rounded arch is unmistakably Norman: solid, simple and built to last. At the centre of the arch is a carved head, worn smooth by centuries of weather, while rough corbel carvings survive at either end of the hood mould.
Look carefully at the stone lintels inside the doorway and in the top corner of the first south window. These are believed to be reused Saxon grave markers, built into the church when the Norman church was constructed. Their carved crosses can still be made out faintly in the stone. Someone’s memorial became part of the fabric of the new church, and in doing so has survived for far longer than anyone could have imagined.