Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church largely of the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. Further restoration took place in 1861-2 by Rogers and Marsden of Louth. The church is constructed of square ironstone with limestone and ironstone ashlar dressings, covered by a Welsh slate roof.

The church comprises a 12th-century nave, a 13th-century blocked north arcade, a 13th-century tower with a 14th- to 15th-century parapet, and a chancel. A vestry/organ chamber was added during the 1861-2 restoration. A rectangular projecting stair turret is attached to the south-east of the west tower.

The west tower has a moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses with set-offs, and a partly restored 3-light cinquefoiled west window. The belfry features a pointed 2-light Y-traceried opening to the south and east, and single blocked lancets to the north and west, all set beneath a moulded string-course and a coped embattled parapet. The stair turret has a small slit window and a single trefoiled light. The nave has a round-headed chamfered door with plain-moulded imposts and hoodmould, and a 14th-century square-headed 2-light trefoiled south window with a restored mullion and hoodmould. The north side features a late 13th-century pointed 2-light traceried window with hoodmould and headstops, flanked by single blocked pointed arcade arches. One blocked arch contains a pointed door with plain imposts and a blocked lancet above; the other contains a late 13th- to early 14th-century pointed 3-light window with intersecting tracery, hoodmould and weathered headstops. The chancel has buttresses to the east and between bays, single and twin 19th-century lancets, and a pointed 3-light east window with geometrical tracery.

The interior highlights a tall pointed double-chamfered arch open to the nave, its inner order dying into chamfered jambs. The blocked north arcade has pointed double-chamfered arches to the outer bays with rounded chamfer-stops, quatrefoil piers and responds with plain moulded capitals, round and square abaci, and moulded bases on square plinths. A pointed double-chamfered chancel arch has chamfered jambs and restored shafts supporting the inner order. A re-set graveslab to John Hatteclyf of 1549 and part of another to Lyon Hatteclyf of 1552 are found within the chancel. The vestry contains a damaged floorslab to William Hatteclyf of 1551 featuring an inscribed border and figures of a knight and lady over an inscribed panel, and another worn graveslab with a lettered border and inscribed cross. The font has a 12th-century circular bowl on a restored cylindrical shaft with cable moulding and an octagonal base. A shallow former font bowl is located in the chancel, featuring a floral boss in the centre.