Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church built between 1937 and 1939 by architect Cecil Howitt of Nottingham, funded by Colonel W.G. Player and constructed by Harry Butler. The church features buff brick with moulded brick dressings and a plain tile roof, which has coped gables and crosses. Architectural details include a plinth, string course, sill band, and corbel table. The building is a symmetrical single unit with west porches and vestries to the north and south. The main body consists of seven bays, supported by heavy, chamfered clasping buttresses. At each end, there are traceried round-arched windows with five lights, and on each side, five tall rebated windows with round heads. The gabled vestries have canted corners and low parapets, with three-light mullioned windows in the gables and doors on the east and west. The west porches feature rebated round-arched doorways with double board doors and small two-light windows on each side, along with a sundial above the west door.

Inside, the church has a brick interior with a coffered barrel-vaulted wooden roof resting on corbels, and original wrought-iron pendant lamps. There is a single plain brick arch at each end, along with an ashlar string course and sill band. The interior includes a panelled wooden reredos, organ pipes flanking the west window, and doorways at each end leading to the north and south. Stained glass windows are present on each side, and original fittings include a cubical ashlar font, a panelled pulpit, a lectern, a desk, and benches. A bronze inscribed tablet commemorates the founder, W.G. Player.