Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church located on Everton Church Road, dating from the mid-12th century with later additions from the late 14th or 15th century. It is constructed of coursed ironstone and cobblestones, featuring ashlar dressings and clay tile roofs. The church comprises a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel, which is from the 12th century, has a 19th-century rebuilt east window gable. Each of the north and south walls contains two plain round-arched lights with small outer reveals. At the west end, both the north and south elevations have 15th-century two-light windows, and there is a 15th-century chancel arch. The nave, also from the 12th century, features three-bay round-arched arcades on both sides, supported by round shafts with scalloped capitals; the north arcade is slightly earlier. The clerestory, added in the 15th century, includes three quatrefoil windows on the north side and three square-headed windows on the south side, one of which has two lights, while the others are 16th-century and have four lights.

The north aisle has a 12th-century west wall with a reset round-headed light, a 16th-century two-light square-headed window in the east wall, and two three-light windows on the north wall, one from the 16th century and the other from the 19th century. These flank a north doorway, which has a 12th-century internal arch and a reworked 15th-century external arch from the 19th century. The south aisle features a 12th-century two-light east window, 19th-century three-light south windows, and a south doorway with scalloped capitals. A 12th-century window has been reset in the rebuilt west wall.

The south porch, dating from the 15th century, has square-headed two-light windows on the north and south sides and a pointed archway. The nave, aisles, and porch have plain parapets. The west tower, built in the 15th century, originally had four stages but now has only three due to the removal of the bell stage. It features a late 19th-century or early 20th-century embattled parapet with corner finials and a 19th-century three-light window on the ground stage.

Inside, most woodwork is from the 19th century, although the nave roof appears to reuse earlier timbers. The nave roof is supported by 15th-century stone corbels, with some 17th-century corbels featuring egg-and-dart moulding. There is a 19th-century octagonal font on squat columns. The nave also contains a wall monument to Sir Humphrey Winch, dated 1624, made of alabaster and polychrome marble, depicting a half-figure in judge's robes within a round arch. The chancel features a marble wall monument to Richard Astell from 1777, showing an urn in front of an obelisk, along with other late 18th-century and 19th-century marble wall tablets dedicated to the Astell and Thornton families.