Church Of St Mary Le Gill

The Church of St Mary-le-Gill is a Grade I listed building, likely dating from the 15th and early 16th centuries, with some remains from the 13th century. It features random rubble construction, except for the tower which is made of dressed stone, and has a stone slate roof. The church consists of a continuous nave and chancel, a south aisle, a porch, and a west tower. The tower is rectangular with a simple design, featuring a gargoyle string course and an embattled parapet, diagonal buttresses, and a square stair turret at the southeast corner. The west window has an arched head and three lights, while the belfry openings are arched with two lights and louvres, all adorned with hood-moulds.

The south aisle includes a simple gabled porch with a cambered head entrance in the first bay, followed by three double chamfered windows with flat heads and round arched lights. There are squat offset buttresses and a nearly central flat-headed priest's door with a single chamfer. The west window of the aisle features three cusped lights, and the north wall has three windows of a more typical design, including a 13th-century lancet at the eastern end and an east window with a stepped arrangement of three similar lights above a short pilaster buttress.

Inside, the church has a five-bay arcade supported by octagonal columns. The roof consists of nine bays: the first six have tie-beam trusses on short wall posts and braces, alternating with braced collars, all with collars braced to the ridge and a lower row of purlins featuring cusped wind bracing. The last three bays have arch-braced collars with more elaborate wind bracing, similar to the eight-bay lean-to roof of the aisle.

Furnishings include a complete set of box pews from the 17th century, except for numbers 37-45 which are from the 19th century, an early 17th-century three-decker pulpit against the north wall of the nave, and a simple bowl font. There are also early 19th-century painted boards displaying the Lord's Prayer, Creeds, and Ten Commandments, along with a churchwarden's pew at the west end dated 1836.