Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church dating from the 12th to 14th centuries, with 19th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed of ashlar and coursed rubble stone with leaded windows and a Collyweston slate roof, featuring a stone stack on the south side of the chancel. The building has stone-coped gables.

The church consists of a west tower with a spire, a nave, aisles, two south chancel chapels, a chancel, and a south porch. The 14th-century tower is of ashlar, spanning three stages and topped with a spire. It features a plinth, angle buttresses with set-offs, a west window containing stained glass from 1863, ogee-headed single-light windows on the second stage, a clockface, two-light bell openings with a transom, a quatrefoil frieze to the east and west, an ogee frieze to the north and south, a head frieze, central gargoyles, and battlements. The crocketted spire has three tiers of lucarnes in alternating directions and a gilded weathercock. A double-chamfered arch defines the west entrance, resting on polygonal responds. The aisles, chancel, and other areas have plinths, buttresses with set-offs, and windows with hood moulds, some with head stops.

Inside, a late 12th-century two-bay north arcade features rounded, heavily moulded arches, a circular pier, and cruciform abaci. The east respond has waterleaf capitals, while the west pier has volute and head capitals. The hood mould is decorated with billet details. A 13th-century two-bay south arcade, with a short bay, displays pointed double-chamfered arches. The perpendicular clerestory has three two-light, flat-topped windows on each side. A restored, low-pitch tie-beam roof is also present. The north aisle contains a window with stained glass dating from around 1900, and a north door dating from around 1300 with an ogee niche above; a flat-topped north window also contains stained glass from 1889. The chancel arch is from around 1300. The largely perpendicular chancel features two perpendicular windows with 19th-century stained glass and three three-light perpendicular clerestory windows. An 19th-century east window has curvilinear tracery. A perpendicular triple sedilia has cusped ogee heads. The south chancel arcade has one bay and a short bay from around 1300, with double-chamfered arches over an octagonal pier. The south chapel, now an organ chamber, houses a perpendicular window and a flat-topped window. The south aisle has two two-light windows, one featuring stained glass from around 1870 depicting the Wingfield family and the other with similar stained glass from around 1860. A south door dates from around 1300 and a flat-topped southwest window is also present. Above the window is a beam roof with curved braces. A perpendicular octagonal font is decorated with quatrefoils. The south porch features a double-chamfered arch and two small niches above. A fine 14th-century tomb-chest decorated with quatrefoils holds the effigy of a member of the Culpepper family and a canopy above the head. Fragments of a much-restored 15th-century low wooden rood screen remain. Earlier 19th-century wall monuments and a 19th-century long, cast-iron heating grill with an interlaced-work design are also present in the nave.