The
parish church of St
Mary Magdalene consists of a
chancel with a modern north
vestry,
nave, north
aisle and west porch-turret. Whilst the church is 13th century in origin with some later additions, much restoration was completed in 1837 when the nave was enlarged and a west gallery added, providing 86 additional seats, according to a record in the church. The west wall, with an entrance and two windows, is modern, as is also the west porch, which is carried up as a square
bell-turret changing to an octagon at the top and having an octagonal
pyramidal roof. There is one bell of 1670 by John Martin of
Worcester. The modern north aisle has two north windows and one at the east and at the west. The
font, of flower-pot shape, may be an old one retooled: it has a shallow bowl. The top has been repaired on opposite sides, probably where there had been staples. who were also responsible for the stained glass in the
Houses of Parliament. Thomas Clarke, the
rector at the time of the puritan ‘Survei of the Ministrie in Warwickshier’ of 1586, was described;
"parson no precher nor learned, yet honest of life & zealous in religion he hath 3 or 4 charges & cures beside that of Kynerton, Witeley? (Weethley) he supplieth by his deputies: his hirelinges that serue by his non-residentship are all dumbe & idle & some of them gamsters : vah of all Ixxx" a yeare." A wooden
war memorial to the memory of the men of the
parish who gave their lives in the
First World War and
Second World Wars includes the name of a woman, Sister E.M. Elvins. There is one
pub-
restaurant, The Huff Cap, formerly the Mother Huff Cap
Inn, the name deriving from the days when most pubs brewed their own
beer, Huff Cap being a 16th-century term for a strong
ale that would ‘huf one’s cap’ or make the head swell, not for the froth on the top of the beer as is sometimes stated. The 'mother' is likely to be the dame who brewed the beer and managed the public house. In 1746 the pub is thought to have been 'The Huff Cap' and to have acquired 'mother' later. This hostelry was once on the main coach road from
Stratford to
Bridgnorth. == Transport ==