nave , chancel tower arch
the church walls , ceilings rendered , painted white throughout. windows glazed translucent rectilinear glass panels, in clear, red or blue. flooring plain red tiling except on raised chancel sanctuary behind altar rail there added bands of black, white , brown. chancel east window part of 19th-century restoration, use of c. 1270 capital detail. c. 1270 chamfered rebated chancel arch has hood mould finished human head label stops on both chancel , nave sides. set within arch further chamfered arch supported responds—half-piers attached walls supporting arch—of semi-circular columns flat-face faceted moulded bases, , foliate capitals have been part-restored. 19th-century-added arched squint on each side of chancel arch, each chamfered rebate part of arch. set above each squint on chancel side gable moulding with, @ spring , point, carved foliated detail. within chancel 14th-century piscina containing quatrefoil shaped drain.
chancel arch squint niches
the north transept (or priory end) windows, east , north, 19th century within 14th-century openings. trussed roof possibly 16th century tie beam support added in 19th. south transept (or hall end) east , south windows 14th century although partly restored. 15th-century south transept roof trussing of hammer beam construction, curved collar braces springing beams supported curved chamfered brackets. running on wall hammer beams roof line wind braces, , ridge beam roof truss framing. both transepts separated nave c. 20th-century panels , doors rising part way top of arches. north transept solid panelling; south clear glazed doors full width. north transept today used church vestry room, , south transept meeting room modern furniture. on south wall of south transept 14th-century piscina recessed trefoiled head, re-cut quatrefoil drain, head of woman in wimple carved @ apex, , finial above.
the nave 13th century in origin, rebuilt in 14th. @ west of north wall part of 12th-century window, blocked , not visible outside, abutted tower wall. north wall window 19th century within 14th-century opening. @ east of nave arch leading north transept. chamfered arch reused when nave widened in 14th century, , supported semi-octagonal responds added in 19th. nave south wall arch south transept 13th century, chamfered, square responds. between transept arch , east wall blocked 15th-century doorway led loft above former rood screen. part-restored south three-light window late 15th century, using material 13th. west of window south doorway moulded arch , hood mould. between south door , tower wall part of 12th-century window, blocked, mirror image on north wall.
at west of nave within tower arch 1780 church organ part of 15th-century three-panelled screen set in front part of organist’s chair—this screen may have come neighbouring berden hall. within nave against north wall of chancel arch octagonal oak pulpit ornamented panelling taken earlier 17th-century pulpit. behind pulpit on chancel arch west face inscribed, in lomardic capitals, mason inscription: “gefrai limathun” (geoffrey mason). church octagonal font sits @ west of nave central tower arch, , plain , painted white, plain octagonal wood cover on sits floral display.
tower bells 1 each w. , p. wightman (1695); j. keene (possibly 1613); robert oldfield (1613); , thomas newman of cambridge.
church plate includes 17th-century repoussé silver-gilt paten, inscription berden parish, 1768. 1602 silver-gilt cup coat of arms, secular—a cup not made church—is of pear shape chased bowl, twisted stem, , steeple-top cover.
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