Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building located on Church Lane in Elloughton. The church features a 15th-century west tower, while the rest of the structure was rebuilt in the Early English style by J L Pearson between 1844 and 1846, using some older materials. The tower is constructed of ashlar, and the remainder of the church is made from coursed oolitic limestone rubble with freestone dressings and slate roofs.

The west tower is two stages high and has a two-bay nave with a south porch, single-bay transepts, and a three-bay chancel. The tower includes a plinth, diagonal buttresses with offsets, and slit windows on the first stage. There is a chamfered first-floor band, two-light pointed belfry openings with Y tracery, an eaves string course, and a crenellated parapet with crocketed corner finials. The west window is a pointed design with two lights and Perpendicular tracery.

The south porch features a pointed door with two orders and nook-shafts under a hoodmould adorned with stylised mask stops, topped by a raised coped gable. The south door, rebuilt in the early 13th century, has a pointed design with three moulded orders, the outer two resting on nook-shafts and the inner order on an attached keel-rolled shaft, with nail head detailing to the imposts and dogtooth ornamentation between the nook-shafts.

The transepts have buttresses with offsets and a moulded sill band, paired lancets under a continuous hoodmould, and a pierced quatrefoil above, with raised coped gables featuring cross finials. The chancel has a chamfered plinth, buttresses with offsets, and a sill band. The central pointed priests' door is flanked by triple lancets under a continuous hoodmould, while the east elevation showcases three stepped lancets under a continuous hoodmould and a raised coped gable with a cross finial. The east wall incorporates an 18th-century tombstone with an inscription to John Robinson, though the date is illegible.

Inside, the church is plain and was remodelled after a fire in 1964. It features a segmental rear-arch with an attached keeled roll to the south door. Notably, there is an interesting brass memorial from 1928 dedicated to US Navy Officers who died in the R38 airship crash, located on the north wall of the nave. A stone pulpit is accessible via a door from the vestry.