Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building, rebuilt between 1881 and 1884 by the architect John Douglas, partly funded by the 1st Duke of Westminster. It features banded red and buff coursed rubble sandstone, steep red tile roofs, and a shingle spire. The church has a cruciform shape with transepts extending from the chancel, an aisleless nave, and a large buttressed tower, which is characteristic of Douglas's work, topped with a spire and octagonal corner spirelets. The north porch is arched and has shaped oak doors with ornate wrought iron hinges.

The windows display various styles of tracery, including plate tracery in the north transept, bar tracery in the east and west windows, and cusped tracery in the rectangular windows of the nave. Inside, the church features ashlar walls and arched oak trusses supporting the roof, with corbelled arches leading to the transepts. The interior is adorned with pictorial stained glass, including a Crucifixion in the east window, the Song of Simeon in the west window, and a depiction of Magdalen anointing Christ's feet in the south chancel window. There is also engraved stained glass in the east window of the north transept, illustrating Christ's childhood in a style reminiscent of Rosetti. The south transept contains an organ chamber, and the church has oak pews with carved ends. This church, designed in a freely interpreted Decorated style, stands on the site of a medieval church next to a motte and bailey castle and remains unaltered.