Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a small parish church, largely dating to the 14th century, although incorporating a 13th-century bell tower to the west and an 18th-century chancel. It is constructed of coursed rubble with limestone ashlar dressings. The west front is dominated by a substantial double belfry, featuring a hipped and gabled rooflet. The bell arches are triple-chamfered, with a small buttress running to ground level, containing a single lancet window. Projecting pilasters flank the sides, supporting clumsy finials. The west aisle windows are lancets, while other windows to the south aisle and clerestory are square-headed, paired traceried lights, the aisle windows featuring squared hood-moulds with corbel heads. A large 14th-century south porch has a parvise, with a staircase set into the southwest external angle. The porch is buttressed and has a single square-headed light illuminating chambers in the gable, along with an arched doorway featuring a hoodmould and hollow chamfered shafts. It has a low-pitched roof with coping and a cross finial. A scratch dial is visible on a quoin stone. A small belfry sits atop the east gable of the nave, with two blocked windows in the gable wall.

The south transept contains a large, double-tiered traceried light, and a square-headed window in the east wall. The chancel, dated 1796, is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble on a plinth, with a flat sill band. It has two large round-headed windows on each side, featuring plain ashlar capitals, facing arches, keystones, wood and lead glazing bars. The north transept has been largely restored, indicating possible rebuilding during the 15th or 19th century, replacing an earlier, smaller transept. A blocked north doorway has a round-headed arch.

Inside, the nave has a late 12th-century arcade with double-chamfered arches on round piers with simply moulded responds, and some corbel heads. The northwest bay contains two half piers separated by a small section of wall. The crown post and strut roof is dated on two tie beams, 1637 and 1804, suggesting a possible rebuilding in the early 17th century. A double-chamfered early English chancel arch stands on round responds, and the chancel itself contains two grotesque corbel heads and a handsome timbered roof, likely from the 20th century, along with a possibly 18th-century communion rail. Arms of George III are displayed over the chancel arch, recently repainted. The north transept is separated from the north aisle by a square archway with blank traceried panelling. A high, blank, traceried panelled tomb recess is found in the west wall of this transept, and an impression of a lower gabled roofline is visible on the south wall.

Furnishings include a series of 18th-century wall tablets in the north aisle, and a single late 19th-century stained glass window, also in the north aisle. A 12th-century font consists of a round basin on a central and four surrounding chamfered shafts, the basin featuring a pattern of blank arcading.