Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a building of the 12th and 13th centuries, with alterations from the 17th century, and a restoration in 1876 and 1880. It is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a plain-tile roof with an ashlar-coped gable. The church consists of a chancel, a nave with a south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel has a 19th-century pointed arched east window of four lights. The north wall contains two lancet windows, one blocked, and a paired cusped-lancet window with trefoil detail. The south wall has a restored pointed arched window of three cusped lancets with labelmould, a priest's door with a shouldered stone lintel and chamfered jambs, and a single buttress with offsets. The nave's south wall exhibits two restored Decorated-style pointed arched windows of three cusped lancets with labelmould, and buttresses with offsets and gablets. The north wall mirrors the south wall, with the addition of an octagonal stone chimney shaft set upon one buttress. A late 19th-century timber-framed south porch, set on a stone plinth and featuring an arch-braced truss, provides access. The south door is within a restored 13th-century pointed arched opening with roll and fillet moulding. The three-stage west tower has rubble walls with ashlar dressings, clasping buttresses, and lancet windows on each face. The upper stage is a late 19th-century timber-framed belfry with a broach spire.

Inside, the chancel roof features a restored crown-post with swept braces to the principals, carved pierced quatrefoils, and a carved tie beam. A 1924 rood screen, in the 15th-century style, supports a rood loft, which retains its original mullions and traceried panels, enhanced with additional deep perforated ornament and cresting. The nave has a 19th-century trussed rafter roof. Other features include a 17th-century pulpit, a 12th-century font with shallow round-arched arcade carving above, and a restored tower arch of two orders with original filleted shafts, some retaining vestiges of stiff-leaf capital decoration. The church houses three 15th-century bells.

Numerous monuments are present, including a wall tablet with an effigy of Timothye Lucye (died 1616), depictions of kneeling figures between columns beneath a corniced canopy with an armorial tablet above. Ten Walcot family tablets, several armorial, date from the early 18th to the 20th centuries, with eight Pardoe tablets of similar dates. Five Walcot slab memorials exist from 1685 to 1812, along with a memorial to Anna Lydall (died 1680). Nave monuments include a 1768 Pardoe tablet, three Powys tablets (1668, 1671, and 1731) with armorial details, and an armorial Powys tablet from 1645 located under the tower.