Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church largely dating to the 12th century, with a chancel from the 13th century, a 14th-century west tower, a 15th-century south porch, and restoration work carried out in 1861 and 1876. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble, with squared sandstone rubble to the west tower, a timber-framed south porch, and Welsh slate roofs.

The west tower has three stages topped with a squat pyramidal roof, featuring two string courses, a plain corbel table, a trefoiled-ogee headed light to the second stage, and a plain square-headed vent to the bell stage. The nave’s south wall has three 19th-century windows; one with two cusped lights and a quatrefoil, another with a trefoil, and a third of a more standard design. The north wall retains an original 13th-century lancet window and a later 13th-century window with two trefoil-headed lights. The south porch is timber-framed on a sandstone plinth, with moulded posts, braces, close studding, and moulded rafters with bosses to the roof.

The chancel has an early 14th-century trefoil-headed light, an ogee-headed light, and a two-light window with trefoil heads, incorporating a re-set 12th-century semi-circular headed doorway. A further early 14th-century window of two trefoil-headed lights is partly obscured by a 19th-century vestry. The east window is a mid-14th-century design featuring three trefoiled ogee-headed lights with flowing tracery.

Inside, the nave features a 13th-century three-bay roof with intermediate trusses, collared tie beams and open arch-braced trusses with trefoils. The chancel roof shows evidence of alteration, but retains some original timbers. The chancel arch is a 13th-century two-centred arch with chamfered orders, flanked by 19th-century cusped openings. The church contains a 1667 font inscribed with a dedication and moulded ornamentation, a 1669 Cholmeley memorial wall monument with a broken-segmental pediment and Ionic columns, and fragments of 14th-century stained glass depicting bishops, possibly Saint Thomas of Canterbury and Saint Thomas of Hereford.