Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church dating primarily to the 13th and 14th centuries, with restoration work carried out in 1869 and again in 1965. The church is constructed of coursed and squared ironstone with limestone ashlar dressings, featuring lead and slate roofs, coped gables with gabled kneelers.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, and a chancel. The west tower, of the 13th century, has three stages, a double-chamfered plinth, three string courses, chamfered eaves with four gargoyles, a crenellated parapet, and four pinnacles. The first stage has a single chamfered lancet window to the south and west. The bell stage features four cusped double lancet bell openings with hood moulds.

The clerestory has three bays on each side, each featuring three late 14th-century untraceried ogee double lancet windows with flat heads and hood moulds. The north aisle has two bays with an off-centre 13th-century doorway, restored, flanked by single late 14th-century ogee Decorated lancets. The east end of the north aisle contains a mid-19th-century ogee Decorated triple lancet with reticulated tracery. All north aisle windows have hood moulds and stops. The south aisle has an unusual reticulated round-headed triple lancet at its east end. The south side has an off-centre 19th-century doorway, chamfered with moulded imposts, flanked by single 19th-century double lancets. All openings on the south aisle have hood moulds and stops.

The chancel has two bays; the north side has two Decorated double lancets, and the east end contains a mid-19th-century reticulated triple lancet. The south side displays two 19th-century Decorated double lancets.

Inside, the tower has a double chamfered and rebated dying arch, dating to the 13th century. The west window of the tower chamber has 19th-century stained glass. The north arcade, with three bays, features octagonal piers and responds with water-holding bases. The 13th-century south arcade has round piers with keeled responds. Both arcades have double chamfered and rebated arches. The roof is low-pitched with arch braces and wall shafts resting on large foliate corbels. The north aisle houses a rebated aumbry to the east. The south aisle's east end has a 13th-century cusped, chamfered piscina. Both aisles have 19th-century stop chamfered plain roofs. The chancel features a late 13th-century double chamfered and rebated arch with conical imposts, and a chamfered sill band. A rebated square aumbry is located on the north side to the east, and a large cusped, chamfered 13th-century piscina is on the south side to the east. There is a stained glass memorial window dating to around 1918. The chancel roof is a 19th-century principal rafter roof with arch braces and traceried spandrels.

Notable furnishings include an octagonal late 14th-century font with a cusped arcaded bowl and corner shafts; softwood stalls and benches; an octagonal oak pulpit on an ashlar base; a wooden lectern, all from the mid-19th century; and seven restored pendant oil lamps. Memorials include a marble and slate war memorial tablet dating from 1919 and a cross from 1907.