Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Roman Catholic church built between 1873 and 1874 by Gilbert Blount. It is constructed of brick and limestone with a tiled roof and features a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a north-west tower, and a sanctuary with a three-sided apse. The nave consists of six bays, with windows in the aisles featuring two moulded pointed lights and three lights in the clerestory. The eastern bay has taller windows in both the aisle and clerestory, each under gables, with two lights and a foiled circle beneath a pointed head. The apse windows are similar. The west wall has four stepped lancets above a blocked pointed doorway. The tower is adorned with slim angle buttresses and has a moulded pointed doorway leading into a porch, above which is a niche containing a statue. The upper stage of the tower is open, featuring two steeply-pointed openings on each side with a central shaft and responding shafts. At the top, there is a copper pyramidal spire.

Inside, the church has an arcade of five bays leading to the nave and one bay leading to the chancel, with plastered pointed arches. The arches in the nave are chamfered in two orders and rest on octagonal columns with moulded capitals. The north and south arches of the sanctuary lead to side chapels, are moulded, and spring from corbelled shafts. The nave's open timber roof features principals rising from corbels and arch-braced collars, each supported by a central iron rod and curved struts. The sanctuary roof is plastered, with ribs that spring from wall shafts. At the west end, there is a gallery with an organ, and the sanctuary windows contain late 19th-century stained glass.