Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church built in 1913 by J.D. Potts and Son. It is constructed from textured concrete blocks and features a graduated green slate roof. The church has a cruciform plan, consisting of an aisleless nave with a western narthex and flanking vestries, north and south transepts with a crossing tower, and a chancel that includes a south chapel and a north organ chamber and vestry.

In the Gothic style, the church showcases lancets and Geometrical-tracery windows. It has a tall chamfered plinth and tall stepped buttresses with gablets that separate recessed bays adorned with eaves corbel tables. The five-bay nave features paired lancets, while the west end includes a single-storey narthex with three lancets, canted corners with pointed-arched doorways, and gabled projecting vestries with paired 2-light windows. A gabled twin bellcote is also present.

The two-bay transepts are characterized by clasping buttresses and paired 3-light windows with a vesica above in the gabled north and south faces, along with pointed-arched doorways on the western returns. The broad square crossing tower has three lancets on each face, with buttressed bay divisions and a pyramidal roof that has slightly-swept corbelled eaves. The two-bay chancel features a taller apsidal east end with buttressed bays, each containing a single lancet, except for a blank centre bay, and is adorned with an elaborate Lombard frieze at the eaves. The two-bay south chapel has paired lancets and a 2-light plate-tracery window on the east return. The two-storey organ chamber includes a chimney on the east gable and a lower square vestry to the east. The roofs, which have a moderate pitch, are designed with large shaped kneelers and coped gable parapets.

Inside, the church has walls made of red engineering brick with stone dressings. The crossing tower is supported by low, moulded pointed arches, and there is a large octagonal stone pulpit and font flanking the west end of the chancel. Each transept's west end features a glazed internal porch, and the church has panelled, slightly-pointed wagon roofs with exposed tie beams.