Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating back to the 13th century, with significant alterations made in 1829. It is constructed of roughly coursed red and grey sandstone rubble with grey sandstone ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. The church comprises a nave and chancel under a single roof, and a west tower.

The tower has two stages, a set-back to the belfry, and a plain parapet with string and coping. It features louvred paired stubby chamfered lancet belfry openings, a west window with three chamfered lancets of equal height with intersecting leaded tracery, and a pointed-arched west doorway with a boarded door. The nave and chancel have a coved stone eaves cornice and a parapeted gable end to the west, with kneelers, coping, and a cross at the apex. The south side includes a pilaster buttress to the left, a central group of three chamfered lancets, and a pair of chamfered lancets to the right. A probably 16th-century moulded Tudor-arched priest's doorway is set off-centre to the right with a boarded door. A partly blocked 13th-century chamfered-arched south doorway is to the left, with an inserted leaded window. The north side features a pair of chamfered lancets off-centre to the right. The east end has a stepped triple chamfered lancet and a small 13th-century chamfered lancet in the apex of the gable.

The interior features a five-bay roof, largely 19th century, with one 17th-century truss in the chancel and a 15th-century moulded arch-braced collar truss with carved dragons in the spandrels. There are pairs of chamfered purlins and elaborately cusped wind braces in one bay forming a foiled shape, along with a 19th-century billet frieze. A chamfered tower arch is present without imposts.

The church contains a west gallery with a 16th or 17th-century roll-moulded beam and a 19th-century balustrade with stick balusters; an early 19th-century three-bay chancel screen featuring square Tuscan columns and pilasters; panelled box pews dating from 1776, ramped up to the screen, with H-hinges, names of farms, and some reused 17th-century fluted panels; an early 18th-century hexagonal wooden pulpit with tall raised and fielded panels and a moulded cornice; a reader's desk and clerk’s pew also likely dating from 1776; a circular stone font dating to circa 1843 with a moulded base; a late 19th-century ashlar reredos with carved frieze and pierced cresting; probably early 19th-century altar rails on three sides with stick balusters; and side benches to the sanctuary. Stained glass is present in the east window, dating from circa 1854, likely by David Evans of Shrewsbury. A series of 18th and early 19th-century monuments are dedicated to the Corbett family (of Longnor Hall), including a notable large tablet monument to Sir Uvedale Corbett (died 1701), featuring a gadrooned base, flanking columns, and a swan-necked pediment with two reclining figures. Medieval wall paintings are found on the north wall of the nave.

A church on the site is first recorded in 1183. The church is notable for the completeness of its 18th and early 19th-century fittings and monuments.