Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating back to the 12th and 13th centuries. It was repaired in the 17th century and restored in 1865-6 by R W Johnson. The church is constructed of squared ironstone with limestone dressings, with a Swithland slate roof to the chancel, nave and porch, a copper roof to the aisle and a Welsh slate roof to the tower. It comprises a chancel, nave, a south aisle, a south porch and a west tower.

The single-bay chancel has two lancet windows to the east end; the window to the left has a carved head above the arch. A paired lancet window is located on the south side with a carved head within the spandrel. A blocked priests' door flanks the south-west corner, featuring a Caernarvon-arched head. The east gable has limestone quoins and a stone cope. The nave has 19th-century paired Caernarvon-arched windows set within the blocked arches of a former north arcade. The south aisle features 19th-century paired lancet windows and a small, blocked two-light stone mullion window at high level to the west. A 13th-century doorway on the south has a chamfer and a 19th-century hood mould with label stops. The porch has a doorway with a continuous chamfer on the outer arch and a chamfered arch on polygonal responds, accompanied by narrow rectangular single-light windows to the east and west with chamfered stone surrounds. The three-stage tower incorporates a lancet window to the west, a small rectangular window to the south with splayed limestone jambs and an ironstone lintel, and twin bell-chamber openings with an octagonal central shaft and a hood mould.

Internally, the chancel contains a piscina and an aumbry with a central square shaft featuring a moulded base and capital, chamfered jambs and lintels, and a spherical triangular drain to the piscina. The nave incorporates three-bay arcades. The Norman north arcade is blocked; its circular piers have square abaci, with zigzag ornament on the north-west pier, a roll-moulding on the north-east pier and imposts to the responds, all supporting round-headed arches. The 13th-century south arcade has octagonal piers with moulded bases and capitals bearing nailhead ornament, polygonal responds, and double-chamfered arches. The tower arch has semi-circular responds with moulded bases and capitals and a double-chamfered round arch. A round-headed window is recessed inside the west wall of the tower and has a deep splay. A Norman font features a circular, tub-shaped bowl with intersecting, beaded, round-headed arches around the upper part, and a bail executed somewhat crudely.