Church Of St Martin

The Church of St Martin is a parish church located in North Owersby, which was completely rebuilt in 1762 using medieval masonry, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed from ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a lead roof. The church features a western tower, a tall nave, and an apsidal chancel.

The two-stage plain tower has a small square plan, with two protruding base courses and a stone band that runs around the church at cill level. The cornice is coved beneath a flat lead roof. The south door in the tower has six panels and a segmental head, above which is a hexagonally faced clock. The belfry openings consist of two lights under a semi-circular head, with timber louvres. The west side of the tower has one plain light, while the north side is blank. The north side of the nave features a coved cornice and a lead roof. The windows include three 18th-century semi-circular headed lights with a plain circle above, and the east window matches this style. The south nave wall fenestration is similar to that of the north. Between the westernmost pair of windows is a sundial on a worn stone tablet.

Inside, the tower porch contains an 18th-century stair with turned balusters. The nave windows are surrounded by plain moulded plaster architraves. The double doors to the tower porch are also framed in plain moulded architraves, with open tracery in the Chinese style on the upper panels. The chancel arch is a wide semi-circle featuring a keystone, and the apse behind has a domed ceiling with a plain coved cornice. The ceiling of the nave has been removed to reveal the 18th-century staggered butt purlin roof and large tie beams. The chancel is adorned with Minton floor tiles. Notable monuments include a brass memorial to Rev. Neilson, who died in 1827, and two painted inscriptions at the west end commemorating "John Richardson Churchwarden, Rob Sheardown, Painter, 1764." The church fittings are all from the 20th century, and the font is an 18th-century bowl on a bulbous pedestal.