Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church that dates from the 14th to 15th centuries, with a rebuild of the nave, chancel, south porch, and vestry completed in 1864-65 under the supervision of W M Fawcett. The building is constructed from carstone, limestone rubble, and fieldstone, featuring some limestone and clunch dressings, and has plain tiled roofs with crested ridge tiles.

The west tower, which is of three stages, has embattled parapets on a plinth and is supported by four-stage diagonal buttressing. The restored windows include a west window with three cinquefoil lights set in a four-centred arch. The bell stage has two cinquefoil openings of clunch in a four-centred arch. The nave, made of fieldstone with Ketton limestone dressings, features two-light windows with quatrefoils in two-centred arches. The gabled south porch has a two-centred outer arch that is moulded and supported by two engaged shafts with stiff-leaf foliage capitals.

The chancel has three lancet windows on the south wall and three graduated lancets in the east window. Inside, there is a two-centred tower arch of two orders, with a wave-moulded outer order and an ogee-moulded inner order on engaged shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The nave has patterned brickwork and a crown post roof in three bays.

The north chapel, added in 1863-64, contains a reset wall monument of Sir Ralph Bovey from 1679, featuring a white marble semi-domed niche with enriched scrolls on a gadrooned shelf, flanked by winged cherubs and a cartouche. In the recess, there is a half-effigy of the deceased rising from the sea and reaching for a wooden anchor offered by a hand from the clouds. Additionally, there are recumbent effigies of Antony Cage, who died in 1603, and his wife, made of clunch and alabaster, with miniatures of ten children in relief at the base.