Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church and community centre built between 1826 and 1830, with alterations and internal divisions created around 1970 to form the community centre. Designed by Joseph and Robert Potter, it is constructed of ashlar with a slate roof and is in the Perpendicular Revival style.

The plan includes a chancel, nave with aisles, vestries, a west tower, and west porches. The exterior features a moulded plinth and sill bands, an eaves band, a coped parapet with gables, and buttresses with crocketed pinnacles. The windows have hoodmoulds with stops. The blank-sided chancel has a pierced crenellated east gable with octagonal flanking piers topped with octagonal spires and ogee finials, and a transomed five-light pointed arched window with a moulded head and finial. The north and south aisles have seven bays, with octagonal corner turrets topped with finials, and seven tall transomed three-light pointed arched windows. A 20th-century door is located under the central window on the south side, with curved brick flanking walls. At the east ends are two-light pointed arched windows. Single-storey, parapeted vestries are at the east ends of the aisles, with two-light pointed arched windows and doors facing west.

The square west tower has three stages, string courses, a mask corbel table, and octagonal corner turrets topped with crocketed spires. A moulded west doorway has single shafts and a crocketed ogee gable, covering wrought-iron gates. The second stage has a blank transomed three-light pointed arched opening to the west, and two-light similar openings to the sides, with a clock on each side excluding the east. The bell stage has a transomed three-light pointed arch bell-opening on each side, each with a crocketed ogee gable. Single, angle buttressed porches with crenellated parapets flank the tower. To the west is a single transomed two-light pointed arched window. To the north and south are a panelled door with a crocketed ogee gable and a figure niche above.

Inside, the interior is divided. The chancel arch is roll moulded with double ringed shafts and a hoodmould. The rib vaulted chancel has Royal arms in a boss. Under the tower is a rib vaulted porch, dated 1829, supported by ringed triple shafts. Fittings include a traceried organ case, a traceried wooden pulpit, and a traceried octagonal font. There are panelled benches, some with shaped ends.