Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church dating from the 14th century onwards, likely built on the site of an earlier church. It is constructed of red sandstone with slate roofs. The church comprises a nave, a tower in the southwest corner, a south porch, a northeast chancel, and the Elton chapel to the southeast.

The embattled tower, partly rebuilt, features stepped buttresses and three chamfered stone bands, with two-light bell openings featuring four-centred stopped hood moulds. A 14th-century traceried two-light window is found on the south wall. The nave, also from the 14th century and buttressed with a chamfered plinth, has three similar windows along the south wall. Two more windows are located on the north wall, while a single window on the west side are 16th-century, three-light windows set in deep recesses. The 17th-century south porch has a round-arched moulded entrance, facing a 14th-century doorway which contains a door of six raised and fielded panels. The doorhead is inscribed with “TD, IC [CHURCH] W[ARDEN] 1725".

The three-bay chancel contains two 16th-century two-light windows and an east window with five lights and a broad rounded head and moulded hood, with mouchettes above the lights. The Elton chapel, alongside the chancel and also in three bays, has three-light windows, one of which has been replaced; a small door has a four-centred arched head.

Inside, the nave is divided by a central arcade of five pointed arches resting on octagonal piers, bases, and capitals. The chancel roof is from the 16th century. A three-sided altar rail from 1695 features twisted and turned balusters and a moulded rail. The altar table has twisted and turned legs and is inscribed with "Tho Bush, Joh Johns Curch War 1694". Raised and fielded panelling with a moulded cornice runs along the chancel walls. A 17th-century reading desk and choir stalls, some with raised and fielded panelling and turned finials, are also present, dated 1694. Memorial tablets to the Bunbury family, likely created by Randle Holmes between 1634 and 1686, are painted on wood. A marble tablet commemorates Rev. Rowland Chambre, Rector, 1760-1796, within the vestry/chapel. A fluted marble font, also from the 17th century, is a further feature. Fragments of a 10th-century cross shaft, displaying figure and animal carvings found during excavations around the church, are preserved. A 17th-century water stoop, constructed from sandstone and set on a carved pedestal, is also recorded.