Church of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with origins in the early to mid-12th century. The east end was rebuilt in the 19th century, and the church includes a 15th-century south porch, a 17th-century west tower, and an 18th-century north vestry. The church is constructed of red sandstone ashlar, with a brick vestry and portions of brickwork to the south porch. The roof is slate, except for the tiled porch.

The west tower has three stages, featuring a string course to the lower stage, diagonal buttresses to the western angles stopping below the belfry stage, a plain parapet, and renewed pinnacles. The nave is of altered Norman design, with an embattled parapet to the western end and a section of string course with zig-zag ornament, which stops beyond an enlarged three-light window. A semicircular-headed window to the west is partly obscured by the porch. The south porch is gabled with a brick upper portion, and contains a semicircular-headed Norman doorway with a hollow-chamfered label and three moulded orders; the central order is enriched with zig-zag ornament and later flower motifs, and features waterleaf capitals to the responds. A 15th-century stoup located to the lower right of the doorway projects slightly with three cusped panels. The north face of the tower retains a blocked Norman doorway with scallop capitals to the responds.

The chancel has a zig-zag enriched string course over two pilaster buttresses with cable enrichment, three narrow semicircular-headed Norman windows, with the central window piercing a buttress and set high above the string course. A semicircular-arched Norman doorway to the west has zig-zag ornament and pronounced imposts.

Inside, the nave has a fine 15th-century moulded arch-braced roof with further moulded purlins and rafters. The chancel arch was rebuilt in the late 19th century in a Norman style. Fittings include a possibly Norman font, altered with a circular bowl featuring scalloped ornament, a Jacobean pulpit with panelled sides containing incised decorative detail, an 18th-century wooden gallery to the west end, and early 19th-century panelled box pews. The west end wall displays two hatchments belonging to the Severne and Vernon families, as well as early 19th-century royal arms.