Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church built in 1878 by Austin, Johnson, and Hicks, which incorporates some features from a medieval church. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped by a graduated Lakeland slate roof. The church consists of a nave and chancel, along with a south-west porch and a north-east vestry, designed in a free late 13th-century style.

The nave features a trefoil-headed west window and a coped gable that supports a bellcote with twin segment-headed openings. The gable has a swept cross-gabled coping with a wrought-iron finial. The porch includes a double-chamfered arch and a coped gable on trefoiled kneelers, topped with a cross finial. The entrance has a 19th-century boarded door with foliate hinges, set within a re-set 12th-century round arch that has chamfered imposts and a hood with head stops. There are two 2-light windows to the east of the porch and three 2-light windows on the north side, with the eastern window dating to around 1260, featuring two lancet lights and a vesica above. The chancel's south wall is slightly recessed and adorned with a carved cornice, featuring 2- and 3-light windows and a sill string that steps up to the east. Shallow buttresses flank the 3-light east window, which is topped by a coped gable with a cross fleury finial. The north vestry window reuses a medieval head, showcasing two trefoiled lights with a circle above and a hoodmould.

Inside, the church has a plastered interior with no structural divisions. The roof is a boarded wagon type, featuring a carved wall-plate in the chancel. A carved chancel screen and a wood-panelled east end display painted scenes from the life of Christ, along with a central carved stone reredos. The sanctuary is elevated by marble steps and a tiled floor, and it contains a re-set medieval moulded piscina bowl. The glass includes a late 19th-century Nativity scene in the chancel's south-west window. Old brass lamp fittings remain in use. An incised 14th-century slab with a cusped cross, sword, blacksmith's tongs, and hammer is set into the west wall. The porch contains an old font bowl and two small 12th-century window heads, as well as a 13th or 14th-century headstone or finial cross built into the walls.