Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church that dates back to the early 12th century and 13th century, with restorations carried out in 1857 by J P St Aubyn and again in 1961. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. The chancel and nave are from the 12th century, while the south porch and north vestry were added in 1857.

The nave's south wall has two windows; at the east end, there are two pointed lights that have been completely restored, and at the west end, there is a small 12th-century semi-circular headed window with tufa dressings. The south porch, built in 1857, encloses a south door that has a flat lintel on shouldered jambs. The west wall was rebuilt in 1857 and features clasping corner buttresses and three lancets topped by a sexfoil light. The north wall includes a window of two pointed lights in a late 13th-century style, restored, located to the west of a blocked 12th-century north door with a massive lintel and shouldered jambs. The north vestry, also from 1857, has a Decorated style window with three lights. A weatherboarded bellcote was added to the east end of the nave roof in 1961, replacing an earlier structure.

The chancel, dating from the 12th century, has a single 13th-century lancet window on both the north and south walls, and the east window, added in 1857, features three pointed lights with quatrefoils above, set under a two-centred head.

Inside, the early 12th-century chancel arch consists of two plain orders with chamfered imposts, one of which has decorative carving. There is a blocked opening to the north of the arch that was once the entry to a rood loft. The nave roof is defined by five bays supported by tie-beam trusses with two raking struts rising from the feet of the principal rafters and halved near the apex; it has been restored but may date back to the 14th century. The chancel roof has three bays and three trusses with a low pitch and collars, one truss featuring a tie-beam, possibly from the 16th century. The church also contains a 13th-century font with a tapering cylindrical bowl that has shallow diapering at the rim and a trellis pattern on the rest of the surface.