Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church, likely dating from the early 16th century, with remnants of the 12th and 13th centuries. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a slate roof and comprises a west tower, nave, lower chancel, north and south aisles, and a south porch.

The tower, lacking buttresses, has an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The bell openings are trefoiled, with the west opening possibly a copy from the early 19th century. The west door is chamfered with a shouldered flat head, and the west window consists of three lights. The north aisle, built with large sandstone blocks, has five bays and features flat-headed mullioned windows, double hollow-chamfered with Tudor-arched heads to the lights. The south aisle also has five bays, an embattled parapet, and mullioned windows with flat heads. One window in the third bay has a chamfered surround above a priest's door, itself with a chamfered surround, pointed head, moulded imposts, and a hood. Both aisles have west windows of three pointed lights under a pointed head, potentially dating back to the 13th century. Their east windows each comprise three lights with mullions and flat heads. The east chancel window features five lights under a Tudor-arched head with a hood.

The south porch has a wide entrance with a moulded round arch and imposts. The inner door, likely from the 13th century, has a pointed arch with two orders of sunk quadrant moulding. The porch roof has two short king posts rising from collars.

Inside, the nave and chancel each have two-bay arcades with pointed arches, chamfered in two orders, supported by octagonal piers with moulded capitals. The chancel arch is similar, springing from two round piers with moulded capitals and flanked by two similar arches spanning the aisles. The round tower arch is likely Norman. A partially reconstructed open timber roof covers the nave, likely late medieval, with three cambered tie beams, no principals, and crown posts braced to the ties and to the collar plate. The rafters are scissor-braced, and the braces are curved, except for those in the western truss. A marble wall tablet, erected in 1706 to Sir John Assheton, is located in the north aisle, featuring composite columns and a broken segmental pediment. The chancel screen incorporates some 16th-century woodwork. The glass in the east window was renewed in 1872, and fragments of medieval glass from the earlier window were incorporated into windows in the north and south chapels.