St Mary's church has a service of worship every 1st and 3rd Sunday at the following times:

1st Sunday at 9.00am - Holy Communion

3rd Sunday at 9.00am - Holy Communion

On any 5th Sunday there is a single service in one of the 8 churches in the joint benefices so there is generally no service at St Mary's on such a Sunday.

The church is open to visitors every day from 9.00am until dusk. 

Brief History of the church.

It is probable that there was a Saxon church on the site originally known as Siwold's Circe. This was superceded after the Norman invasion by a stone build church with a splendid three tier tower of Kentish ragstone.

The oldest parts of the church are about 1133 AD. The chancel was extended in about 1220 AD.

There are many interesting features of the building which warrant a visit.

Not least the evidence of how in mediaeval times when the Chancel belonged to the priest and the Nave to the 'people', and the sermon was preached from a platform over a dividing grilled and painted screen .

There are a number of plaques in the church notably in memory of the childrens story writer Edith Nesbit, who is buried in St Mary's churchyard, and one in memory of the well known local historian Anne Roper.