Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a church built between 1850 and 1852 by architect John Dobson, with the west tower rebuilt from 1888 to 1890 by J.S. Crowther. It is constructed from buff sandstone, with coursed stonework in the tower and tooled squared rubble elsewhere. The church features an aisled nave with five bays, a north porch, transepts, a chancel, and a vestry. The west tower is three stages high, battlemented, and has diagonal buttresses. The west window is in the Perpendicular style, and there are paired bell-openings with panel tracery. The aisle windows are three-light Perpendicular style under camber-arches, while the clerestory has triple trefoil-headed lancets. The transepts have geometrical windows and diagonal buttresses, and the east windows are also geometrical, with a Perpendicular window in the vestry/sacristy.

Inside, the nave arcades are supported by octagonal piers, and the roof features arch-braced trusses. The transepts have collar-beam trusses, and the chancel has a panelled roof. There are galleries in the transepts. The stained glass in the west window dates to 1853, and the east window, created in 1865 in memory of the Rector, is complemented by three south aisle windows by Wailes and one north aisle window by Kempe. The church also contains an octagonal stone font, likely from the mid-17th century, and a plain panelled oak pulpit from 1623. A supposed Roman altar is located in a preserved medieval Decorated niche in the south aisle, marked with the initials IW (possibly John Warburton) and featuring a horseshoe motif on each side. Notable monuments include those for W. Domville from 1686, John Leigh from 1806 and his wife from 1819, as well as tablets commemorating members of the Fox family from the early 19th century. The tower also houses hatchments.