Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church largely dating to the late 13th century for the chancel, the early 14th and 15th or 16th centuries for the nave, and the 14th century for the west tower. It was restored in the 19th century, particularly the chancel. The church is constructed of pebbles and limestone, with clunch dressings to the openings and dressed clunch to the west tower. It consists of a west tower, nave, north and south aisles, and a chancel.

The west tower is of three stages and 14th century, with embattled parapets and setback buttressing. It has restored 14th-century windows with dagger cusping to the two-light bell chamber openings. The nave is of the 14th century with late 15th or early 16th-century additions. It has an embattled parapet and a restored clerestory of Ketton stone. Five windows, each of three cinquefoil lights in four-centred arches, are present. The south aisle, originally 14th century, was restored in the 19th century. It has four windows of two cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery, originally of clunch but now of Ketton stone. The chancel, also of pebble construction, is of the 19th century, but incorporates two restored 13th-century lancet windows in the north wall. The south wall contains two 14th-century windows with dagger cusping, one with a low-side opening, now with reset medieval glass.

Inside, the 14th-century tower arch is of clunch, with a two-centred arch of two continuous orders, the outer hollow and roll moulded and the inner ogee moulded. The five-bay south arcade is early 14th century, with two-centred arches on octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases. The north aisle and arcade was either rebuilt or added later in the 15th or 16th centuries, also in five bays with four-centred arches, hollow moulded, with an ogee-moulded inner order on attached shafts to diagonally set piers. The nave has a late medieval roof of five bays with moulded and braced tiebeams. The north aisle has a late 15th or early 16th-century roof also in five bays with moulded main beams, some with leaf ornament and a cornice originally with angel enrichment, now mutilated. The chancel arch is late 13th or early 14th century and similar to the south arcade. A rood loft staircase opening is present on the north side. The font is 13th century. A 17th-century octagonal canopy of oak with an acorn finial and urn finials to the edge sits atop the limestone font bowl. A number of pews are 16th century with carved ends and finials, and the chancel screen is 15th-16th century, with much original woodwork to the closed panels and the vertical tracery.