Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Roman Catholic church built in 1852 by the architect Paley. It is constructed from squared limestone with limestone dressings and features a steep slate roof. The church consists of a nave, a lower chancel, and a north porch. The north wall of the nave has four windows with plate tracery, each containing two cusped lancets and a trefoil. The chancel wall features four lancets with hoods, while the east wall is supported by diagonal buttresses and has three stepped lancets with hoods. The porch includes a deeply moulded doorway with a statue of the Virgin Mary above in a carved sandstone niche. The west wall has diagonal buttresses and a central bay that projects outward, featuring a central buttress and two tall cusped lights, which are topped by two gabled bell openings. The south wall of the nave contains five cusped lancets. Inside, the five-bay nave has an open timber roof supported by long scissor braces, ashlaring, and side purlins. The chancel arch is made of moulded sandstone and springs from columns that are supported by foliated corbels.