Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church that was rebuilt after a fire in 1466, with restorations carried out in 1864 and 1920. It is constructed from fieldstone, clunch rubble, and features dressings of clunch and limestone, topped with a tiled roof. The church has a layout that includes a west tower, nave, and chancel.

The west tower is three stages high, built on a plinth, and features diagonal buttressing and a newel staircase at the northeast corner. It has been rebuilt with an embattlement and includes a restored west window with three lights. There are single light windows with trefoil heads in two-centred arches on each side of the second stage. The bell stage retains original clunch dressings around its two-light openings, which have foiled heads and two-centred arches.

The nave has two late 15th-century windows in the south wall that have been restored. The chancel features windows with three cinquefoil lights in two-centred arches. A north porch, dated 1636, is framed, rendered, and tiled. The north and south doorways have continuous ogee mouldings leading to four-centred arches on chamfered bases.

Inside, the nave roof is in three bays and is late medieval in style, featuring arch-braced cambered tie beams. The west tower arch is two-centred and serves two aisles, with outer hollow and roll moulding, and inner chamfering. The responds have half-octagonal shafts with moulded capitals and high bases. The chancel arch is similar and includes a stair opening for a rood loft on the north side. The chancel also has a late medieval roof with arch-braced tie beams, and the wall posts rest on stone corbels, featuring engaged shafts with embattled capitals and moulded bases. The cornice is embattled as well. There is a piscina from the late 15th to early 16th century in the east wall of the chancel, and the pulpit is from the early 17th century, set on a modern base.