Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building located on Hall Lane in the parish of Sutton cum Duckmanton. It dates from the early 14th century, with additions from the 15th and 17th centuries. The church is constructed of coursed sandstone with sandstone dressings and features slate and lead roofs. It includes a west tower, a nave with a north aisle and a south porch, and a chancel with a north aisle.

The west tower, built in the Perpendicular style, has two stages separated by a stringcourse beneath the bell openings. It is attached to the nave on the east side and has diagonal buttresses on the west. The tower features 2-light bell openings with hoodmoulds and panel tracery, as well as a stringcourse adorned with gargoyles and battlements topped with four small pinnacles.

On the south elevation, from left to right, there is a 2-light early 14th-century window with curvilinear tracery, above which is a 17th-century window with two semi-circular headed lights beneath a square head. The 14th-century porch has a double-chamfered arch with a hoodmould. To the right, there is a 3-light window with reticulated tracery. The chancel features battlements, pinnacles, and buttresses, along with a 3-light window with geometric tracery and a 2-light window with reticulated tracery. The north aisle windows, likely from the 17th century, consist of three and four round-headed lights beneath flat arches.

Inside, the church has a 14th-century north arcade with five bays, octagonal piers, and capitals, and double chamfered arches. There is a west gallery dating from 1738, which has raised and fielded panels. In the north aisle, there are three late 18th-century prayer boards. The interior also features a screen with five semi-circular cusped arches, 17th-century communion rails with turned balusters, and a panelled dado around the sanctuary and in the north aisle. Notable memorials include an incised slab for John Foljambe from 1499 and a wall tablet with a bust for Samuel Pierrepont from 1707.