Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church dating to 1883, built in Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and renewed plain tile roofs. It is designed in a North European Gothic style. The church includes a nave, chancel, vestry, and northeast tower, along with a south porch. Later additions, a church hall and ancillary rooms built in 1975 and 1991, are attached to the north, but do not detract from the original composition.

The chancel, with two bays, has an east gable with unequal slopes, a coped gable stack, and a finial cross. A three-light window is present with a datestone below. A two-light pointed arch window is located to the left of center on the vestry. The south side features a single window, and the north side a single window.

The nave, with four bays, has a west gable with two single lancets, a coped gable stack, and a finial cross. The south side includes a gabled porch with a pointed arched doorway, flanked by a single window to the west and two to the east. The north side currently has three windows, with the remainder obscured by a later 20th-century addition featuring a large hipped roof. To the east of the nave, a porch with double doors is flanked to the south by two triangular-headed windows.

The three-stage, unbuttressed and slightly battered tower features a plain pointed arched door on its south side. The first stage has a quatrefoil window on each side, below a blind gable. Above that, the bell stage is constructed of ashlar, and features a timber-framed bell enclosure with louvred openings under cusped heads containing trefoils. The top is finished with a tiled hipped square spire.

The interior is rendered. The chancel features a very unusual ashlar triple arch with chamfered pointed openings, the central opening being larger. There are pink granite piers with exaggerated Romanesque capitals and water-holding bases. The roof has cusped principal rafters, cambered laminated cross-beams, and kingposts with curved braces. A plain doorway is on the north side, while the south side has a pointed arched doorway. The east end window features a projecting stucco surround with gabled heads to graduated lights, and contains stained glass by Percy Bacon of London. The nave shares a similar roof structure, with plain principal rafters. The west window contains patterned stained glass. The south side has a pointed arched door and three windows, and the north side has four windows. The north-east window has later 20th-century double doors inserted beneath. Central windows on each side include memorial stained glass, with one to the north dated 1913.

The church contains 20th-century fittings including a cusped panelled wooden reredos, a wooden altar rail, and lecterns. Brass memorials are present from 1908 and 1923, with war memorial brasses from 1918 and 1945. The church is listed as a striking Arts and Crafts building, stylistically advanced for its date.