Church Of St Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church dating to the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, with a restoration in 1858 by James Fowler of Louth. It is constructed of squared ironstone and chalk rubble, with limestone dressings, and slate and tiled roofs. The church comprises a western tower, a nave with a clerestory, aisles, and a chancel.

The tall, three-stage ironstone tower of the 15th century has clasping buttresses, a plinth, two string courses, and an embattled parapet. The west window is of three lights with cusped heads, a concave moulded surround, and a hood. Small quatrefoil lights are present on the middle stage, and the belfry has paired trefoil-headed lights in each direction.

The 19th-century south aisle is built of chalk with a slate roof, featuring an Early English style doorway and two lancet windows on the north side, with a similar window in the east end. The nave is similarly constructed in chalk with a tiled roof; the clerestory has three 19th-century round-headed windows.

The north wall of the chancel contains a 13th-century doorway with double-chamfered reveals, moulded imposts with ammonite stops, and a richly-moulded head and hood with circular decorated labels. It also features a 13th-century plinth and sill band with three lancets. The east wall has two lancets with moulded hoods featuring beast and ammonite labels, and a 19th-century quatrefoil light above; a stepped median buttress with dog tooth moulding is present beneath the coping. The south wall of the chancel has three 14th-century two-light windows, refaced in the 19th century, and a smaller 14th-century two-light window set low in the wall. The east window of the south aisle is 15th-century, of two lights with a square head and hood. The south aisle is rendered and contains two 15th-century three-light windows with trefoil heads to the lights, set in cambered concave chamfered surrounds. The south doorway is likely 14th-century, with a continuous concave chamfered and moulded surround.

Internally, the three-bay arcades are early 13th-century, with quatrefoil keeled shafts, square abacii, and double-chamfered arches, unusually constructed in chalk. The north arcade has floriate label stops. The tower arch is 15th-century, with octagonal responds and capitals, a single chamfered arch, and a continuous chamfered surround. The chancel arch is 13th-century, with octagonal responds, a double chamfered arch with a hood, and ammonite label stops. A 13th-century double piscina with trefoil and pointed heads is situated in the chancel, along with a round-headed aumbry in the north wall. A curvilinear floral painted design in red and black paint is visible on the sill of the westernmost window on the north side of the chancel. Stained glass is present in the chancel south window, dated 1910. The 15th-century font has a plain octagonal bowl on a pedestal.