Parish Church Of St Mary

Parish church of 1850, designed by S.S. Teulon. The church is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a decorative plain tiled roof with raised stone coped gables. It consists of a nave, a western bellcote, a south porch, a vestry, and a chancel. The fenestration is in a Victorian curvilinear Decorated style.

The west end features a slightly projecting bay marked by stepped buttresses, rising to a gabled bellcote. The west window is of four lights, and above it is a plain opening with a cusped head. The north nave wall has stepped gabled buttresses; at the west end is a single light window, and to the east are three windows of two lights. The projecting vestry at the east end has angle buttresses and a centrally located pointed and moulded headed door. To the west of the door is a cusped headed light, and above it a bulbous triangular window containing mouchettes. The north wall of the chancel has a two-light window, and the east end has a large five-light window set above a foundation stone laid in 1850 by John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln. The south wall of the chancel has a single two-light window and a three-light window. The south wall of the nave mirrors the north wall and includes a projecting gabled porch with a pointed moulded outer arch, drip moulded label stops, and cusping to the underside of the head. There are single bulbous triangular lights to the side walls, and the inner arch is also pointed and moulded, without capitals. The planked doors have original foliate decorative ironwork.

Inside, the west window has a larger rear arch with nook shafts. The chancel arch is in a 13th-century style with filleted responds, annular capitals, and a moulded pointed head. To the left of the chancel arch is a trefoil headed light leading to the vestry. The nave has a fine hammer beam roof with moulded principals and corbels with ball flower ornament. An archway, moulded on the interior, leads to the vestry, north side of the chancel. The east window has a rear arch with nook shafts. The chancel has an arch braced roof with moulded principals and corbels. All fittings, including a handsome octagonal font and the stained glass in the chancel, date to around 1850. A fine encaustic tiled floor with tiled inscriptions to the risers of the chancel and sanctuary step is also present in the chancel. The church was founded by Bishop John Kaye D.D. of Lincoln.