Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary, built in 1852, was designed by Miss Sykes for Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet of Sledmere. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof and features a 2-bay nave with a south porch and a 3-bay chancel that includes a north vestry, all in the Gothic Revival style.

The west end has angle buttresses with offsets and a lancet window with Decorated-type tracery at the top, framed by a cavetto-moulded hood with label stops. A quatrefoil is set in the gable, and there are ashlar kneelers and copings. At the apex, there is a bellcote with an ogeed trefoil opening, topped by a cross.

The south porch is supported by diagonal buttresses with offsets. Its entrance features a pointed chamfered arch under a hoodmould, with a finial at the top and flanking shields. Inside, there is a basket-arched opening with a door that has three traceried panels.

The nave has buttresses with offsets at the ends and between the bays on the north side, with 2-light straight-headed windows that display Perpendicular-type tracery and hoodmoulds on either side of the porch and along the north side. The eaves are roll-moulded, and there are ashlar kneelers and copings.

In the chancel, there are buttresses with offsets between the bays, and lancet lights beneath hoodmoulds with label stops. The east end features a 3-light pointed window with Perpendicular-type tracery in a chamfered surround, also under a hoodmould, with a cross at the apex.

Inside, the chancel arch is pointed and chamfered, resting on octagonal responds with capitals. A Norman tub font is present, carved with figures in arcading. There are monuments including a marble wall tablet to Mrs Foord-Bowes, who died in 1839, by Sir Francis Chantrey, and three additional tablets by Fisher of York. The stained glass in the east window was created by Baillie in 1851.