Tower of St Mary Magdelene

The church was pulled down in 1871 after it had become ruinous. The tower is all that remains of the medieval church of St Mary Magdalene. The tower is a 1503 rebuilding of an earlier medieval structure.Beside the tower, in the area formerly occupied by part of the old church, is a pleasant garden area, behind which is the newish Catholic church of St. Thomas of Canterbury.

In a specially built display area at the base of the tower is a fanciful Baroque memorial to the Whitfield family, dated 1680. This monument is in the Flemish style often associated with Grinling Gibbons and Arnold Quellin.