Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church located in Bruntingthorpe. The only remaining part of a medieval structure is the base of the tower, while the rest of the church was built in 1873 by W. Smith of London in an Early English style. The building is primarily constructed from coursed and squared small blocks of limestone rubble, with limestone dressings and plain tiled roofs featuring ridge cresting. The tower, however, is made of random granite rubble.

The church consists of a west tower, a nave with a north aisle, and a chancel. The two-stage buttressed tower has a saddleback roof and foiled lancet windows. The tall south wall includes windows with one, two, and three lights, as well as an almost round-headed doorway with chamfered jambs. The nave has a steep roof topped with a cross finial on the eastern coped gable, while the chancel roof is also steeply pitched with a coped eastern gable. The east window is a three-light design in the early Decorated style, and there are two-light Decorated windows on the south side, along with a priest's door. A gabled vestry projects to the north, and the buttressed north aisle features a chamfered archway leading to the doorway and foiled paired lancet windows. A plinth and ashlar sill band run throughout the structure.

Inside, the church has a dark interior with a double chamfered tower arch and a nave arcade of three bays, both supported by semi-octagonal responds and piers made from banded ashlar. The outer chamfer of the arcade ends in a simple stop on each pier. The roof is steep and richly timbered, featuring common rafters, collar purlins, and some main trusses. The chancel arch has semi-octagonal responds with foliate capitals and an outer hood mould supported by corbel heads. The chancel has a panelled wagon roof.

There is a circular font from the 12th or 13th century, featuring two moulded horizontal ribs, set on a modern base. The church contains stained glass, including a window in the western aisle from 1873 and the Annunciation depicted in paired aisle lancets from 1891. The chancel and south windows feature glass created between 1915 and 1919. Other fittings are contemporary with the restoration, including a wooden screen to the vestry adorned with fretted tracery decoration.