Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, with a 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of ashlar and granite rubble stone with parapetted roofs, featuring plinths, stone dressings, stepped buttresses with gargoyles, and mostly restored tracery. The church comprises a west tower, nave, aisles, chancel, chancel chapels, and a south porch.

The west tower, of three stages, has ashlar facing to the west. It features a moulded doorway with fleurons, a three-light window with Perpendicular tracery, a two-light flat-topped window above, four paired two-light bell openings with battlemented transoms and a quatrefoiled lozenge frieze, battlements, gargoyles, and shafted, crocketted pinnacles. A clock face is located on the east side of the bell opening, centered, and also on the north side.

Inside, the church possesses double-chamfered arches on semi-circular responds. The north arcade, of three bays (the eastern bay being wider), is late 13th century and exhibits many moulded arches on quatrefoil piers, a hood mould, nail head and dog tooth decoration. A circa 1300, three-bay south arcade contains double-chamfered arches on circular piers. A Perpendicular clerestory has four three-light windows on each side. The roof is a restored four-bay, low-pitch, cranked tie-beam design with wall posts and curved braces from stone-carved head corbels supporting wooden figures. Carved bosses are present. The north aisle includes a north doorway, a west window with Intersected tracery, three north windows with Curvilinear and Reticulated tracery, and a double-chamfered arch on octagonal responds leading into the north chancel chapel (now the organ chamber). This chapel contains a north window with Perpendicular tracery and a northeast window with Curvilinear tracery. The chancel arch is double-chamfered with a hood mould and grotesque animal stops. Similar arches are present in the chancel chapels, with curving and semicircular responds. A tomb recess with nail head decoration, a small north door, an archway to a former rood, a north window, and two south windows with Curvilinear tracery are also found in the chancel. The east window features a 19th-century mosaic reredos below. The floor is tiled, likely Minton. The church contains a circa 19th-century, three-bay, low-pitch roof.

The exterior of the chancel has crocketted pinnacles and a finial on the east gable. The south chancel chapel has a southeast window with Curvilinear tracery, two south windows with Reticulated tracery, and a piscina with an ogee arch. The south aisle has four windows with Curvilinear tracery. The south doorway arch is heavily moulded, flanked by double shafts. A two-storey, battlemented porch features a many-moulded arch to the doorway with circular responds, a window above, and windows to either side. A 12th or 13th-century font, a wall monument in coloured marble (to Katherine Aynesworth, 1807, by Shenton, Hull and Pollard of Leicester), a wall monument of 1886 to a former Vicar, Georgian Royal Arms (painted on canvas), a brass lectern (a 1929 memorial), and a resited lead inscription tablet (dated 1727) are among the interior furnishings.