Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, with restoration work carried out in 1878 and a south porch dated 1635. Constructed of coursed rubble stone with ashlar buttresses and battlements, it features a parapetted roof. The church adjoins Nevill Holt Hall to the west. It comprises a west tower with a spire, a nave, transepts, a chancel, and a south porch.

The 14th-century west tower has three stages, with four 2-light Perpendicular bell openings, gargoyles, battlements, and a recessed spire featuring tiers of lucarnes, a foliage finial, and a weathervane. The nave arch is double-chamfered, with the inner section resting on polygonal responds. There are two 3-light Perpendicular windows on either side of the nave. A north doorway is blocked. The south doorway has a moulded arch. The nave has a restored, low-pitch, moulded tie-beam roof with head stops. The late 13th-century north transept has a double-chamfered arch with polygonal responds and foliage capitals, and a Perpendicular window. The chancel arch is double-chamfered, supported by polygonal responds. The chancel contains a north, south, and east Perpendicular window, the east window containing stained glass dating to 1878. A piscina and double sedilia feature shafts and many-moulded arches. The chancel also has a low-pitch tie-beam roof. The south transept has a Perpendicular south window with fragments of 16th-century stained glass, and blocked east and west windows. The south porch has a rounded arch and battlements, with a tablet above the arch inscribed "Thomas Nevill of Holt Knight built this porch at his coste Anno Domini 1635."

The church contains a number of notable monuments, including one to Sir Thomas Nevill, who died in 1636, featuring a carved and painted alabaster and marble aedicule with three columns and a recumbent effigy in armour. There is also a carved stone and marble table tomb erected in 1633 to Sir Thomas Nevill, who died in 1569; a carved alabaster and marble wall monument to Jane Thursby, who died in 1631, depicting a kneeling figure and desk under a canopy held by two angels; and a carved white marble and slate wall monument to Anne Neville, who died in 1644. A number of further 18th and mid-19th century Nevill wall monuments are also present. A Norman font, round with feet at the angles and a square base, is also within the church. C16 wrought iron railings are located within the south transept, alongside five hatchments. An elaborately carved, earlier 17th-century, octagonal pulpit with back-panelling and a tester is also present.