Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church with origins dating back to the 12th century, and it has been reworked in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. The chancel was rebuilt in 1890. The structure is primarily made of cobblestones, with some limestone rubble and ashlar dressings, and features slate roofs. The church includes a chancel and south vestry, a nave, a north aisle, a south aisle, a south porch, and a west tower, all topped with embattled parapets. Most windows are from the 15th century, with some restoration from the 19th century.

The chancel and south vestry, rebuilt in 1890, have a three-light east window and two-light windows, with four-centred arches. The vestry features a small square-headed window. The chancel arch is from the 15th century. The nave, originally from the 12th century and reworked in the 14th century, was heightened in the 15th century. It has 14th-century three-bay pointed-arched arcades on both sides and a clerestory from the 15th century with three three-light windows featuring four-centred heads on each side.

The north aisle includes an east bay that was likely originally a 13th-century north transept, incorporated into the 14th-century aisle. Its elevation has two three-light pointed-arched windows and one two-light window with a square head. The east wall has a three-light pointed-arched window, while the west wall features a three-light four-centred arched window. There is a pointed-arched north doorway under a square head. The south aisle, from the 14th century, has two three-light pointed-arched windows on the south elevation and a two-light pointed-arched window on the west elevation. The east elevation has a three-light four-centred-arched window.

The south porch, dating to the 15th century, has two-light windows with square heads on the west and east sides, and a pointed-arched doorway under a square head. The west tower, from the 15th century, has three stages and four-stage angle buttresses. The ground stage of the west elevation features a pointed-arched doorway under a square head, above which is a three-light two-centred-headed window. The bell stage has paired two-light pointed-arched windows on each side.

Inside, the north aisle roof features 15th-century timbering, while the roofs elsewhere are from the 19th century. The church has 19th-century pews and a 14th-century octagonal font with carved quatrefoil panels. There are fragments of medieval glass in the middle window of the north aisle. A rood staircase is located in the northeast corner of the nave, with a lower entrance on the north side. Additionally, there is a 14th-century image niche in the southeast corner of the nave, and the arcade labels have grotesque head stops that appear to have been reworked in the 20th century.