Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church, now redundant, dating primarily to the 12th and 13th centuries, with later alterations, and featuring a chancel rebuilt probably in the late 19th century. Constructed of sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings, it has Welsh slate roofs with tile cresting. The church comprises a three-bay nave with a western bell-cot, and a two-bay chancel.

The west elevation displays a battered plinth and a high-set lancet window within a chamfered recess. The gabled bell-cot, also with a battered base, incorporates two trefoiled openings. The north side of the nave has a chamfered, triangular-headed blocked doorway and a lancet window above it. A trefoil-headed light is located to the left. The chancel’s north and south sides each contain two chamfered lancets. The east window features three stepped lancets without tracery, set under a two-centred arch with a moulded label. The south chancel window has a chamfered lancet to the left and a pair of square-headed lights to the right. The nave's south side features a lancet to the left and, to the right, two lancets within a restored, chamfered two-centred arch, topped by an oculus within the spandrel. A south porch, likely from the early 20th century, has a coupled rafter roof and a stone bench on its east side. The south doorway is distinguished by a massive lintel above a tympanum with recessed lozenges.

The interior includes pine single-frame collar trusses, probably dating to the late 20th century, the chancel trusses being supported from corbels below the wall-plate level. Stained glass depicting cross-motifs and foliated margins is present in the east window. The north and south windows have ruby glass margins but are otherwise plain. A brass plaque commemorates Lt Thomas Andrew Greville Rouse-Boughton-Knight, who died aged 19 in France in 1916, and Rifleman Edward Charlton, a gamekeeper on the Wormsley Estate, killed aged 36 near St Quentin in 1918. A marker cross is attached to the wall above Rouse-Boughton-Knight’s plaque. Two wrought iron tripods, each with a paraffin lamp, are positioned in the chancel, likely dating to the late 19th or early 20th century. The C13 chancel arch is double-chamfered and two-centred, resting on part octagonal responds and corbels, which are probably a later addition. A blocked, triangular-headed doorway is visible on the north side of the nave, and on the opposite side is another blocked opening with continuous convex mouldings and a segmental head. A bracket with ball-flower ornament is located to the left of the north-east nave window. The font, likely from the 12th or 13th century, has a tapered cylindrical base and a round-tapered bowl. The C17 oak pulpit features two sides of panelling, with enriched arches in the lower two panels separated from the upper panels by guilloche ornament. The front of the oak desk has four panels with moulded margins, probably dating to the late 17th century. The Church of St Mary is maintained by the Redundant Churches Fund and features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.