Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church built between 1836 and 1838 by John Latham, with transepts and a chancel added in 1852-1853 by E.H. Shellard. It is constructed from punch-dressed sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof. The building has a nave oriented on a north-south axis, with a south tower flanked by square wings, and east and west transepts leading to the chancel. Designed in a Romanesque style, it includes round-headed windows throughout.

The south front of the church is tripartite, featuring a four-stage tower. The first stage has three storeys and is flanked by wings of equal height, each gabled to the west and east. Each element has clasping pilasters, with the wings topped by squat pinnacles. The ground floor includes round-headed doorways, with the central doorway being larger and adorned with three orders of unorthodox moulding. Above, the tower has three-light windows on two levels, with the lower level featuring blind outer lights. The date "MDCCCXXXVI" is displayed in raised Gothic lettering between the windows, along with a corbel table above. The wings each have one small window at the front, a similar window on the side, and a two-light window in the gable.

The tower continues above the first stage in three successively set-back stages, with the second and third stages featuring two-light windows with cushion capitals. The third stage, originally designed to resemble turrets at the west end of Tewkesbury Abbey, is topped with a needle spire and lucarnes mounted on a drum, with corner cylinders from which the pinnacles have been removed.

The five-bay nave is characterized by pilaster strips and tall round-headed windows set within blank arches. The transepts have clasping buttresses that are finished as square two-stage turrets, featuring blind arcading above and pyramidal caps. The east transept has a central round-headed doorway, and both transepts include round-headed lancets. The chancel, which is lower than the north gable of the nave, has three round-headed lancets and a circular window above. The interior has not been inspected.