Parish Church Of St Mary

The Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building, dating from the late 14th century, featuring a nave, chancel, and tower, with a notably earlier 14th century chancel window. The church was restored in 1901 by Mr. Rickett of Abingdon under the direction of Detmar Blow. The walls are constructed of field stones, with limestone and clunch dressings, and the roofs are made of tiles and slate.

On the south elevation, the tower consists of three stages, each offset, with a plinth and an embattled parapet, and it lacks buttresses. The belfry has a round-headed arch in a two-centred sealed arch. An octagonal spire made of ashlar features spirelights. The nave has a parapet gable that extends as a buttress to the east and a diagonal buttress to the west. There are three two-light traceried windows, and the south doorway has chamfered jambs and a moulded head, leading to a 15th-century south porch with semi-octagonal shafts and a four-centred arch.

The chancel includes a diagonal buttress of two stages, one early 14th-century window with two trefoiled lights and net tracery, and another window with two cinquefoiled lights and a quatrefoil. Inside, the chancel arch is from the 15th century, featuring semi-octagonal shafts and two chamfered orders, while the tower arch has three chamfered orders. The church boasts fine 15th-century queen-post roofs in both the chancel and nave, adorned with embattled cornices. The font is an octagonal bowl with a splayed underside set on a modern base, dating from the 13th century. There is a piscina with a four-centred arch from the 15th century, a Gothic cast iron communion rail from around 1900, and an oak chest from the 17th century.