Church Of St Mary The Blessed Virgin

The Church of St. Mary the Blessed Virgin is a church built in 1844 by George Fowler Jones. It is constructed from dressed magnesian limestone and features a slate roof. The church has a cruciform plan, consisting of a nave with north and south aisles, full-height transepts, a chancel, and a crossing tower topped with a broach spire. Designed in the Early English style, it showcases tall chamfered lancets and a corbel table.

The nave is buttressed and has three bays, while the aisles have two bays with doorways in the first bay. The south aisle features a shallow gabled porch with a deeply-recessed outer arch that is moulded in two orders, supported by clustered shafts and adorned with a hoodmould that has carved stops. The inner doorway is similarly moulded and has large double doors with ornamental strap hinges. The north aisle doorway has set-in shafts and a hoodmould. The west bay of the nave has a single lancet window on each side, and the aisles have coupled lancets. The west gable is highlighted by a stepped triple window, with the center featuring two lights topped by a quatrefoil, while the outer lights are blind, all linked by hoodmoulds. The gable is finished with coping, kneelers, and an apex cross. The transepts have coupled lancets on the sides and two-light windows in the gables, also with hoodmoulds. The two-bay chancel has lancets on the sides and a stepped triple lancet window on the east side. The crossing tower includes weathering for the set-back belfry stage, with a panel on each side featuring a Lombard frieze and a two-light belfry window with a hoodmould. A clock face is fixed to the mullion between the lights, and the tower is topped with a moulded cornice and an octagonal spire that has lucarnes on the cardinal sides. The roofs of the nave, transepts, and chancel sweep over the eaves.

Inside, the church features short three-bay arcades supported by cylindrical columns that hold up two-centred arches with figured stops. The crossing piers are composite with clustered shafts, and the roof is an arch-braced collar-truss design.