Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary has a 12th-century origin, with aisles added in the 13th century, heightened in the 14th century, and a clerestory in the 15th century. The nave was restored in 1861 by G G Scott, and the chancel rebuilt in 1863 by T G Jackson; the chancel roof was painted in 1950 by Charles Nicholson. The church is constructed of Barnack rubble stone with ashlar dressings, featuring a tower and spire, and a chancel roof of Collyweston stone slates. The visible nave and aisle roofs likely contain lead.

The church comprises a nave, aisles, crossing tower and spire, transeptal chapels (originally transepts, the lines of which are still visible in the roof north and south of the tower), a chancel, a 13th-century embattled south porch, and a north vestry built in 1935. The west front has pilaster buttresses at the angles, a round-headed 12th-century doorway with several orders of chevron moulding on cylindrical shafts with shaft-rings, flanked by blind panels with steeply pointed arches, also with chevron mouldings carried on similar shafts. Larger pilaster buttresses are on either side, surmounted by a 19th-century decorated window.

The 12th-century tower lower stage features pilaster buttresses and roll mouldings, rising into a 13th-century Early English bell stage with angle shafts. The bell stage has three arched bell openings on each side, with three orders of mouldings carried on shafts with nail-head mouldings. Each bell opening is divided into two lights by a central shaft growing into Y-tracery. Above are table of corbel heads. The tower is topped by a 14th-century octagonal broach spire with gargoyles at the springing point. Cardinal sides have lower, two-light gabled lucarnes; other sides have two-light gabled lucarnes halfway up, and ogee-headed niches with crockets and finials, enclosing statues, just above the broaches. A weathervane tops the spire.

Inside, the 3-bay nave arcade is of pointed arches carried on cylindrical columns with two chamfered orders and nail-head decorated capitals, along with water-holding bases. The roof incorporates 15th-century tie beams and a 15th-century two-light clerestory. The north aisle has re-cut decorated windows, while the south aisle has a perpendicular window. Lancets are at the west end of the aisles. A round-headed entrance to the bell chamber is reached via a gallery from a stair turret to the south, crossing the south aisle by a disappointed 12th-century arch with chevron mouldings. Pointed crossing arches are chamfered and bell moulded. The transeptal chapel window has Y-tracery; the south window is Decorated. A 19th-century lancet lights the chancel, which is covered by a 19th-century roof with angel springers. Pews incorporate some medieval bench ends. A 14th-century font has flat tracery. Stained glass from the 19th and 20th centuries is also present.