Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a church built in 1858 by William Butterfield for Lady Fitz Clarence. It is constructed from pink sandstone ashlar with beige sandstone dressings and bands. The roofs are made of graduated Lakeland slate and feature tile cresting. The church is designed in the Decorated style and includes a nave, chancel, north porch, south chapel, and vestry.

The three-bay nave has a porch on the right side with pointed-arched doorways and semicircular responds that have moulded capitals. The roof is very steeply pitched and topped with a foliated-cross finial. There are one-light cusped windows, and a gabled buttress marks the junction of the nave and chancel. The chancel has a lean-to vestry with a trefoil-headed doorway on the right return. The west and east ends feature three-light windows, and the church has an extremely high and steeply-pitched roof. A steeply-gabled bellcote is located between the nave and chancel, showcasing a pair of cusped ogee bell openings and an oval opening above that has two mouchettes and a quatrefoil. The south chapel has a separate but similar roof, with a rose window at the east end and a west end that includes a 2-light window and a doorway with a shouldered lintel beneath it.

Inside, there is a broad chancel arch with semicircular responds, a low wrought-iron screen, and chancel gates. The south chapel has two 3-light Decorated openings. A piscina with Decorated open-work tracery is present, along with wrought-iron altar rails. The nave features a king-post roof, while the chancel has a roof that is half scissor-brace and half boarded, with beams painted with stars and rosettes.