Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church incorporating reused 14th-century stonework, with significant 15th-century fabric and a complete rebuilding in 1854-5. It is constructed of squared greenstone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has lead and slate roofs. The building comprises a three-stage western tower, a clerestoried nave, a north aisle, a chancel, a south porch, and a vestry.

The tower has a plinth, a chamfered string course, a battlemented parapet, corner crocketed reused 14th-century pinnacles, and corner buttresses. The belfry stage has three lights with panel tracery, and single reused ogee-headed lights on the sides. The west door is ogee headed, above which is a tall three-light 15th-century window in a hollow-chamfered surround. A two-light pointed window with geometric tracery is set into the north aisle's west wall. Two three-light Perpendicular windows are located on the north side, one with a segmental head. The clerestory has three two-light windows, also with Perpendicular tracery. A plain parapet features moulded coping. The pent-roofed vestry has a tall, facetted ashlar stack, a segmental headed doorway, and two ogee-headed lancets. The chancel contains a two-light north window matching the clerestory, an east window of four lights with Perpendicular tracery, and a small quatrefoil window in the gable. A corresponding window is located on the south side, alongside a further ogee lancet in the south nave wall. The clerestory mirrors the north side.

The steeply gabled south porch has a chamfered pointed outer arch with keeled and filleted responds, and a continuously moulded pointed inner door with side benches and ribs to the vault.

Internally, the three-bay early 15th-century north nave arcade has octagonal piers and capitals, bell-moulded bases, and double-chamfered pointed arches. A tall 15th-century tower arch has two chamfered orders with octagonal imposts. The chancel arch features 15th-century chamfered responds and imposts, with a 19th-century double-chamfered arch. A 19th-century trefoil-headed doorway leads from the north aisle to the vestry. Remains of a stairway to a former rood loft are visible on the north side of the chancel arch, with a rood doorway above. A 19th-century four-centred moulded archway with imposts provides access to the organ chamber in the chancel north wall. The church has a fine 19th-century hammer beam roof supported on stone corbels. Furnishings include a 19th-century ashlar pulpit with a reading stand decorated with apples and quatrefoils, two commandment boards in the chancel, and 19th-century pews. A fine early 17th-century facetted gablet font is accompanied by a swept, panelled wooden cover with egg and dart moulding and an acorn knop.