Church Of St Mary And Churchyard Walls

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church built between 1846 and 1847 by W. Evans of Manchester. It is constructed from rock-faced ashlar with chiselled ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with coped verges. The church has a four-bay nave and a two-bay chancel, along with a south porch and a north vestry, supported by angle buttresses. Designed in the Early English style, the nave and chancel are adorned with lancet windows beneath plain hood moulds, a triple lancet window at the east end under a continuous hood mould, and a double lancet window at the west end. The west gable includes a gabled belfry with an open lancet arch that houses the bell.

Inside, there is a pointed chancel arch, and the nave roof features arch-braced collars with king posts above, double purlins, and a narrow ridge piece. The principals and braces rest on short beams that project from the wall plate level and are supported by short posts on corbels. The chancel roof has braced collars with a king post and raking struts above, along with single purlins and a narrow ridge piece, with collar braces springing from corbels.

Notable fittings include a 19th-century stone font with a squat stepped base, an octagonal pedestal with a moulded bottom, and an octagonal bowl featuring carved trefoil-headed blind arcading. There are also 19th-century wooden bench pews, a seven-sided 19th-century pulpit accessed from the vestry with trefoil head panels and nook shafts at each angle, a brass eagle lectern, and a 19th-century balustraded wooden altar rail with balusters resembling nook shafts flanking open pointed arches. The east window is adorned with stained glass. The church is set within a small churchyard enclosed by rubble walls.