Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church constructed in 1885 by Lord Grimthorpe, with a chancel added in 1912. It is built of rock-faced ashlar stone, with plain ashlar detailing, and has a clay tile roof. The church comprises a six-bay aisled nave with an eastern porch and bellcote, and a narrow, single-bay western chancel with flanking vestries. A moulded plinth and continuous sill stringcourse run throughout, punctuated by quoined offset buttresses between bays and setback buttresses at the corners.

The east elevation is wide and gabled, featuring a projecting, low porch with offset angle buttresses. The porch arch has a pointed shape with inner roll mouldings on nookshafts and a hoodmould with head stops. Trefoil-headed lancet windows flank the porch, and a stepped gablet with blind lancets sits at the ridge. The door within the porch is similar to the outer arch, with two orders. Above the porch are three adjoining stepped lancets with trefoil heads, united by a continuous hoodmould, with smaller single lancets on either side. The bellcote on the ridge has a four-centred arched bell opening and a blind quatrefoil in the gable.

The nave elevations feature large, paired trefoil-headed lancet windows in each bay. A pointed doorcase with a double roll-moulded arch on paired nookshafts sits within the west bay of the south elevation, below the lancets. The chancel has a large, pointed, three-light geometric traceried west window with a hoodmould with beast-stops. The south vestry has two trefoil-headed lancets and a Caernavon arched door below one, while the north vestry is single-bay and similar.

Inside, the church has five-bay north and south arcades with tall, thin, banded cast iron columns supporting pointed timber arches and arched braced roof trusses. A tall, pointed stone chancel arch is flanked by similar, lower arches. A moulded stone sill stringcourse runs along the windows. A 19th-century Decorated style timber screen is located at the east end. Other furnishings include a circular stone font with a wooden cover, a carved reredos and choir stalls dating from 1912, and an east window also dating from 1912, designed by Dudley Foster (the cartoon for which remains in the church).