Church of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed church built in 1871 by the architect G.E. Street for Sir Tatton Sykes, the fifth Baronet of Sledmere. Constructed from ashlar stone, it features a stone slate roof on the tower and a plain tile roof elsewhere. The church is designed in the Gothic Revival style and includes a four-stage west tower, a continuous three-bay nave with a south porch, and a two-bay chancel with a single-bay north vestry.

The tower has a chamfered plinth and clasping buttresses with offsets at the third stage. It features a roll-moulded band at the first stage and a two-light window with geometric tracery in a pointed double-chamfered surround on the west side of the second stage. The third stage includes slit windows with ogeed, chamfered surrounds on the south, west, and north sides. The fourth stage has a blind arcade of three pointed arches on banded shafts, with a central ogeed trefoil-headed lancet, all under a continuous hoodmould. The tower is topped with a pyramidal roof that has small gabled lucarnes on each side, surmounted by crosses and featuring lancet windows.

The nave has a plinth and an entrance to the gabled south porch, which is a double-chamfered pointed arch under a hoodmould with leaf stops. Inside, there is a pointed plank inner door with ornamental hinges, also within a pointed moulded surround and under a hoodmould with leaf stops. Both the nave and chancel have buttresses with offsets between the bays. The nave features two-light pointed windows with geometric tracery under hoodmoulds with leaf stops, while the chancel has ogeed-cinquefoil lights and a continuous sill band. The vestry has two stepped trefoil-headed lights at its east end. The east end of the chancel is supported by diagonal buttresses and a central buttress, with a three-light pointed window featuring geometric tracery under a hoodmould with leaf stops. An octagonal stack rises from the west end of the vestry, and stone copings adorn the east and west gables.

Inside, the church has a plain interior with a continuous sill band, a brass screen, double sedilia with cinquefoil arches, and a double piscina with trefoil heads. The roof is painted, with more elaborate detailing in the chancel. An octagonal font is present, and most of the stained glass is attributed to Clayton and Bell.