Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1913. The Church of St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, 2 miles south of Appledore Station. The church is mentioned in 1294. Fairfield Church is a timber church. The roofs are original, possibly 14th c. and the internal square framing of the western turret is contemporary. One upright of the original framing remains in the north wall. Reconstructed, and most of timbers renewed, in 1912-13 by W.D. Caroe in chequered red and grey brick with thin tiles to corbels (possibly replacing C18 brick-work). West gable end plain brownish-red brick. Wood shingled bell turret. East end of nave tile-hung above chancel, east end of chancel weatherboarded above wall-plate. Plain tile roofs. Nave, incorporating west bell turret; south porch; small low chancel. Bell turret has pryamidal roof. Nave and chancel roofs gabled, chancel with decorative, possibly medieval, barge-boards. Leaded rectangular casment windows throughout church, except chancel east window which contains small quantity of stained glass; all 1912-13. Boarded outer and inner doors to porch, the former with thin tiles to head of architrave. Chequered red and grey brick mounting block to west end, probably 1912-13. Interior: Nave and chancel separately framed, with evidence for virtually closed close-studded partitions to west truss of chancel and to east truss of nave. Chancel of 2 timber framed bays, nave of 2 1/2, with gunstock-jowled principal posts and some evidence for arch braces to wall-plates; walls otherwise rendered. Cambered arch-braced tie-beams, (those to chancel about 7 feet from ground), braces chamfered, with solid spandrels and continued with chamfered fillets. Similar moulded octagonal crown-posts to central trusses of nave and chancel. Half bay to west end of nave, beneath bell turret, enclosed to north and south with close-studded partitions, each with door to east, leaving central area open to west gable end to contain font.