Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church built in 1879, with an addition of a west bay and tower completed between 1905 and 1908. Designed by Waddington & Dunkerley, the church is constructed of ashlar stone and features slate roofs. It has a nave with lean-to aisles, a chancel, and a west tower topped with a spire. The nave and aisles consist of six bays, with the aisles featuring two-light plate-traceried windows and the clerestory displaying alternating groups of two and three lancet windows. There is a gabled, buttressed porch at the first bay on the south side. The chancel is slightly lower than the nave and has two-light windows set in colonnaded arches, along with a steeply pointed east window containing four lights and quatrefoils in the head. A small three-light window is located in the gable apex, and an organ loft projects from the south side of the chancel under a cross-roof. The church has low, steeply offset buttresses on all sides. The west tower is tall and severe, consisting of three stages with angle buttresses that transition into canted pinnacles, which recede into the minor faces of the octagonal spire. The cardinal faces of the spire feature tall lucarnes. The west window has three lights with cusping, and the arcaded belfry stages include tall single louvres. The interior has not been inspected. At the time of listing, the church was still in use but had been converted into a training centre for teaching traditional building skills in 2012.