Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed building located on Leek Road in Bosley. The tower dates from around 1500, while the nave was built in 1777 and the chancel in 1834 by James Green. The tower is constructed of red sandstone, and both the nave and chancel are made of Flemish bond red brick, topped with large grey slate roofs.

The tower consists of three stages and features a 19th-century boarded west door set in a medieval arch, diagonal buttresses with tooled quoins above, and roughly-squared rubble walls. It has a west window with two trefoil lights, and the bell-openings were converted to three trefoil lights between 1878 and 1879, adorned with hoodmoulds on grotesque and head corbels. The top six feet and battlements of the tower were also added during this period.

The four-bay nave includes six pointed windows with stone pads and keystones, while two of the east windows have been altered and feature stone cases from 1834. The one-bay chancel has a three-lancet stone east window, a lancet south window, and a 20th-century north window with two lancets. The east gable of the nave is coped with kneelers and a crocketed finial, and the chancel has a hipped roof.

Inside, the nave features queenpost trusses, partly made of oak, with plaster walls and a round chancel arch. There is a light 20th-century geometrical roodscreen made of oak, with stained glass from the late 19th and late 20th centuries. A notable mid-17th-century oak pulpit on a pillar has panels and corner colonettes. The church also houses an organ from 1879, a parish chest likely from the late 16th century, a 19th-century stone font, and plain oak pews. Additionally, there is a monument to John William Nowell, a railway engineer who lived from 1806 to 1851, created by Sanders of Euston Road. The church has six bells, three of which are older, dating from 1663 and 1756, and feature inscriptions.