[1] Its crossing tower with eight triangular head windows has a battlemented top of later date, and there is a 14th-century effigy of a knight in chainmail.

Residing under the church floor there is claimed to be an escape tunnel used by the Saxons and priests when in danger, though it is more probably a drainage culvert.

The tunnel leads under the church floor and Norton Green, eventually surfacing in the Albany housing estate.

The church floor was recently renovated and Saxon remains and artefacts were discovered in the tunnel entrance.

The grave of John Walker, the inventor of friction matches, is located in the churchyard.