Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building with origins dating back to the 12th century. The nave and chancel were rebuilt in 1889 by Temple Moore, while the west tower dates from the 15th century. The church features a two-bay chancel and a four-bay nave, which includes a north porch and a west tower. The tower has two stages, a chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses, and a hollow-chamfered string at the belfry level. The west window consists of two pointed lights, and the belfry has two-light openings with curvilinear tracery, along with a corbel table adorned with masks at the parapet. The roof is pyramidal and topped with a weathercock.

The nave has a chamfered plinth and buttresses with offsets, and its windows are two-light with cusped tracery. There is a blocked south door to the nave featuring attached shafts and a pointed head with keel moulding and ball ornament, topped with a raised coped gable. The chancel includes a round-headed south door with a continuous chamfer and an east window with three lights showcasing elaborate curvilinear tracery, flanked by buttresses and topped with a raised coped gable and a cross finial.

Inside, there is a 12th-century tower arch, seemingly inserted into an older structure, with three human faces carved on each impost. The nave contains a nine-sided tub font and an early 18th-century pulpit. In the north of the chancel, there is a 19th-century plaque commemorating the burial of King Alfred of Northumbria in AD 705. On the opposite wall, a plaque records the death of Lora, Viscountess Downe (died 1812), with an inscription that refers readers to the Gentleman's Magazine for May 1812 for further details about her life. A large number of sculptured fragments, including a pre-Conquest interlace slab, have been incorporated into the exterior fabric of the nave.