The church of this lowland village and an old timbered house near by look across the Trent meadows where floods sweep down at times and lap the garden walls.
Within a stone's throw of each other are a long row of attractive brick cottages and a fine cross. Made after the fashion of 1,000 years ago, from a block of stone weighing 12 tons, it came to this small place after being offered in 1916 to the Derbyshire village which sent the greatest number of men to the Great War in proportion to its population.
Nothing is left of the Norman church given to the Knights Hospitallers whose house and chapel are thought to have been at Arleston not far away, where ancient stone foundations are in a farmhouse. The earliest work in the bright church is the 13th century group of pillars with unusual clustered shafts in the north arcade; most of the rest is of the 14th century, including the charming windows. The tower was given its belfry in the 15th century; the font is 500 years old.
Between the chancel and south aisle is a great peephole, and on the opposite side is a passage which probably served the same purpose.
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