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More than 1,000 years have told their tale since a little band of monks came rowing down the Trent from Repton and brought their craft to rest by these green meadows.
Something of the church they built is in the one between the road and the river, eloquent with the story of the years, yet with the strength that outlasts centuries and the charm of dignified simplicity. Here is work of the Norman builders, with traces of the 13th and much of the two next building centuries.
This mediaeval treasure house is rich indeed in craftsmanship, for it has a 15th century oak screen with an embattled cornice and some tracery under the chancel arch, old stalls in the choir, and some sturdy Elizabethan oak benches in the nave. It has a Carolean pulpit with a canopy, a 17th century altar table, an old oak chest, and remains of a 14th century oak screen now in the aisles. The roofs of the nave and the north aisle have much of their fine 15th century timbering, the nave roof with old bosses.
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