Parish Church Of St Mary

The parish church of St Mary dates to the mid-13th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th and 15th centuries, and a 19th-century restoration. The church is constructed of field stones, limestone rubble, and reused stones, with limestone dressings. Lead and slate roof coverings are present.

The south elevation features a tower with angle buttresses, a plain parapet, and a recessed spire with gabled spirelights. The belfry window has two lights with geometric tracery contained within a two-centred arch, and a single quatrefoil-light below. Aisle windows include three two-light windows with quatrefoils in two-centred arches, and one three-light window. The clerestory has four windows, each with two trefoiled lights and a quatrefoil within a two-centred arch. A porch features with plain embattled parapets and crocketed angle pinnacles, and a moulded two-centred arch flanked by foiled recessed panels. The chancel has diagonal and buttresses, and windows with three cinquefoil-lights with embattled and cusped transoms. The north wall of the chancel contains an early 13th-century priest's door with double corbels carved with heads, supporting a pointed arched canopy surmounted by a 15th-century crocketed finial.

Inside, the nave arcade comprises four bays with octagonal piers, moulded capitals and bases with double wave-moulding to two-centred arches. The chancel arch has semi-octagonal shafts, and the tower arch has two chamfered orders. A restored piscina has 13th-century foiled drains. The nave roof has been rebuilt with carved angels at the intersections of the main timbers, and a 19th-century barrel roof covers the chancel. A 14th-century octagonal font sits on four shafts. A 15th-century chancel screen has been restored. Late 17th-century panelling is located in the chancel. A carving of Christ with the Woman of Samaria, possibly of Dutch origin, is dated to the 18th century. Memorials include a black marble slab to Seweteri Peyton Barconetti (1717), Thomas Waddington (1722), Sir Thomas and Sir Henry Peyton (1771 and 1789), Thomas Cole (1797), Isabella Anne Peyton (1827), and the Reverend Algernon Peyton, Rector (died 1868). Memorial glass includes windows by Buden (Lille, 1873), Powell (Leeds, 1883 and 1874), E. Win (Leeds, 1890 and 1907), and a window by Morris and Co (circa 1865), originally from Langton Green, Kent, depicting a crucifixion by Rosetti, St Peter by Morris, and St Paul by F M Brown. A 19th-century reredos features gold mosaic, and there is a brass lectern.