Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating to 1869, with an addition made in 1928, designed by JG Weightman. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, and is built in the Gothic Revival style.

The plan includes a chancel, a north transept, a nave with a clerestory and aisles, and a south-west tower with a spire. Externally, features include a chamfered plinth, corbelled eaves, coped gables, north and south gables with crosses, and buttresses. The chancel east gable has angle buttresses and a four-light pointed arch window with Geometrical tracery and a hoodmould. The south side has a double lancet window. The transept features a double lancet to the east and a Decorated three-light pointed arch window in the gable. A door is located on the west side. The nave clerestory contains six quatrefoil and trefoil windows on each side. The west gable has a four-light pointed arch window and seven small single lancets below, with a two-story addition to the right dating from 1928. The south aisle has six two-light pointed arch windows, while the north aisle and baptistry have seven similar windows and a single lancet to the east.

The south-west tower has three stages with angle buttresses and string courses. A chamfered and moulded doorway, with a traceried gable and finial, is positioned to the north. To the west is a single lancet window and adjacent to it a canted stair turret with a door and a single lancet above. The second stage features a triangular window over the doorway and single lancets to the east and west. The panelled bell stage has squat pointed traceried openings on each side, with a clock positioned above them. The octagonal broach spire has two tiers of gabled lucarnes on alternate faces.

Inside, the chancel arch is double chamfered. The chancel includes a sillband and a double chamfered arch leading to the transept. The nave has six bay arcades with double chamfered arches supported by alternating round and octagonal piers. The roof is a common rafter design with strutted collars. A gallery with an organ case on each side is situated at the west end. The transept includes 20th-century glazed screens. The north aisle features a segmental pointed west door and east arch. The south aisle contains a blind arcaded baptistry at the east end.

The church contains fittings including several late 19th-century windows, a late 19th-century D-shaped traceried stone pulpit, an octagonal font with a 20th-century cover, a triple shaft brass lectern, a Perpendicular style wooden reredos, traceried panelled stalls, and two wooden war memorial tablets.