Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church built between 1833 and 1834 by R. Dawson, replacing an older church. It was remodeled in 1892. The church is constructed from rough-faced stone with roughly-tooled quoins, featuring a tooled-and-margined ashlar plinth, buttresses, and dressings, topped with a stone slate roof. The building has a rectangular "preaching box" shape with a narrower west tower, designed in a free 13th-century style.

The west tower is three stages high, with a chamfered plinth and set-backs between the stages, and stepped angle buttresses on the lower stage. There are three steps leading up to double boarded doors on the west side, which are set in a double-chamfered arch with a hoodmould. The tall belfry stage features double lancet windows and a string course below an embattled parapet adorned with crocketed corner pinnacles. The body of the church has a chamfered plinth and a chamfered string below an embattled parapet with similar crocketed corner pinnacles. On the north side, there are three windows, each with three lancets under a single arch and hoodmoulds, and a similar central window on the south side. The east end has a chamfered set-back below a triplet of lancets with moulded rings on the jamb shafts, linked hoodmould, and flanking pointed niches with hoodmoulds. Above this is a 15th-century slab brought from Mortham, featuring an IHS symbol enclosed by a riband inscribed 'Soli deo honor et gloria', all under a hoodmould. The gable is stepped and topped with a cross fleury finial, and there are two spiral-fluted rainwater heads.

Inside, the church is plastered, and the furnishings are mostly from the late 19th century, including a carved rood screen with cusped panels and an integral pulpit, as well as similar screens enclosing the choir and sanctuary. The dado is panelled, and the ceiling is also panelled with carved bosses and arch braces on stone corbels. The re-cut 13th-century font has a circular bowl on a shaft supported by six attached columns, with dog-tooth ornamentation between and a moulded base. The east window features glass from 1892 by Kempe, depicting the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John. In the tower, there is a 13th-century graveslab with a six-arm cross from the site of the old church.