In Medieval times St Mary's was an important site of pilgrimage with a shrine filling the whole north aisle.

This survived Henry VIII's dissolution program but was destroyed around the time of the Civil War.

The co-ordinator can be reached at kerseychurch.org/fosm The Shrine was rehallowed in the presence of Leading Aircraftman Dougie Vince.

The RAF, however, had installed two searchlights in the churchyard of St Mary's Kersey which illuminated the church tower, giving pilots a known navigational reference point.

A reconstruction of the church is thought to have started with the north aisle which was joined to the nave by an arcade and completed in 1335.

[5] The chancel was rebuilt in 1862 by King's College, Cambridge, and a small vestry was added in the north east corner.

[8] It was resited in 2012–3 to make room for kitchen and toilet facilities at the west end of the north aisle.

Weddings and funerals enter through the 15th century West doors, noting the curiously off-set tower, nave and chancel.