Church Of St. Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church dating back to around 1300, with significant alterations made in the 17th century, 19th century, and a complete rebuilding between 1976 and 1980 by G.R.A. Mack of Louth. The church is constructed from random mixed rubble and red brick, with slate roofs. It consists of a western tower, a nave with aisles (widened in the 20th century), a chancel, and a vestry.

The two-stage tower has a lower section in stone and an upper section in brick, featuring diagonal stepped brick buttresses offset to the belfry stage and a battlemented parapet. The belfry stage has paired rectangular lights from the 17th century. A 20th-century brick lean-to addition is attached to the base of the tower on the south side. The west aisle is constructed in 20th-century brick and incorporates reused 19th-century stonework details, including a two-light window. To the north of the west wall are two similar windows and a triple window, along with a wide doorway featuring panel tracery taken from Manby Church. A 20th-century vestry is also present. The chancel is constructed in banded stone and brick and has a 19th-century three-light east window. A late 13th-century window with two trefoil-headed lights is found in the south wall. The south aisle has been rebuilt using reused 18th-century bricks and incorporates four 19th-century two-light windows.

Inside, the tower arch is double-chamfered with octagonal imposts. The nave arcades, dating from around 1300, feature octagonal piers and capitals surmounted by 20th-century timber arcades. A double-chamfered 19th-century chancel arch has moulded octagonal imposts. The chancel contains a 19th-century arch for the organ loft and a 14th-century triple sedilia on the south side, with an opening to the vestry on the north side. The church contains a fine set of turned baluster altar rails with knops and an inscription on the top rail, including the date 1714. All other fittings are 20th-century. The font, dating from around 1400, is octagonal, with a panelled stem and cusped ogee panel tracery to the sides. Monuments include a limestone ledger slab in the north aisle with a full-length figure in low relief and a black letter inscription. Further monuments commemorate Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam (d.1403), his wife Elizabeth (d.1403), Elizabeth Fitzwilliam (d.1522), George Fitzwilliam (d.1536), and Thomas Fitzwilliam (d.1494), the latter being a dresser tomb in freestone with quatrefoils to the base, a four-centred arch, and a quatrefoil parapet.