Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th, 14th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and a plinth, and has a roof of graduated Lakeland slate with stone gable copings, and a stone slate roof to the porch. The west tower includes a north stair turret. The nave is aisled, with a south porch and a second north aisle. The tower has low diagonal and south buttresses, a plate-traceried three-light west window, and upper stages featuring lancet windows, paired shouldered bell openings, and a battlemented parapet. A clock dial is situated on the south side. The aisles have plate tracery to their west windows, and two-light pointed windows in the first and third bays of the south aisle. A four-light bar tracery window is located in the fourth bay, and a three-light window in the east end of the aisle, with a buttress between the third and fourth bays and diagonal buttresses. The second north aisle features plate tracery windows under four gables, separated by large gargoyles. The four-bay chancel includes a priest's door under a round drip-mould in the third bay, round-headed windows under a corbel table in the first, second, and fourth bays, and a three-light arcaded east window with clasping buttresses and a low east buttress. Inside, the nave arcades have slight chamfers to their round arches, the south arcade exhibiting guttae to the capitals. The chancel arch is also slightly chamfered and rebuilt upon scalloped-capitalled half columns.