Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating from the 13th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th century, and rebuilding of the east chancel wall in 1673. Restorations occurred in 1854 and 1863. The church is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, covered by a Welsh slate roof. It comprises a west tower, a nave with a south porch, and a chancel.

The west tower has three stages, with a plinth, stepped diagonal buttressing, a plain parapet, and a single square-headed loop window to the second stage. The belfry has two trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil decoration. The nave’s south side features a restored two-light window with primitive head stops to the label, two trefoiled ogee-headed lights with quatrefoil, and an easternmost window with two trefoil-headed lights and multifoiled tracery above. The south porch has a 2-centred arched outer doorway with two orders and a similar inner doorway. Returns on either side of the porch contain two trefoiled ogee-headed lights, that are partially restored. The chancel has a square-headed window with two trefoiled ogee-headed lights above a square-headed doorway. A window to the right has two trefoil-headed lights. The east window, dating from 1673 and made for John Abrahall, is a copy of the late 14th century window at St Tysillo, Sellack. It has four trefoil-headed lights with vertical tracery in a 14th-century style, and a small panel in the gable displays arms and initials, inscribed with "IA 1673".

The interior features a late 14th or early 15th century roof over the nave, with open arch-braced collar and two cusped struts above the collar; a copy of this roof exists in the chancel. The tower arch is 2-centred with two continuous chamfered orders, while the chancel arch has two chamfered orders and moulded imposts. A recess to the south of the chancel arch in the nave has a cinquefoil ogee head and two moulded shelves. The church contains a large 14th-century octagonal font with a moulded base and a panel with pairs of trefoil-headed arches to the sides. A 17th-century six-sided pulpit has decorative arcading and fluting. The 17th-century communion rails have turned balusters, and similarly dated stalls are present in the chancel. There is a defaced 13th-century effigy in the chancel and a smaller similar effigy in a nave altar recess. A memorial tablet for John Abrahall, dated 1736, is on the north chancel wall; it is made of mixed marble with an open segmental pediment on Corinthian pilasters, shell motif, decorative brackets, a funerary urn and the Abrahall arms. It commemorates John Abrahall of Ingeston (died 1702), Markey Abrahall (died 1715), John Abrahall (died 1734), and Benedicta Abrahall (died 1742), erected in memory of the latter John Abrahall by Esau Osborn of Bristol. A polychrome wall tablet commemorates Dorothy Jones (died 1690) and William Jones (died 1696). A stone wall tablet from 1675 features an open segmental pediment with a cartouche of arms, twisted Ionic columns, and a wigged demi-figure carrying books. A memorial from 1673 depicts George Abrahall with allegorical figures.