Parish Church Of St Mary (Church Of England)

The Parish Church of St Mary, a Church of England building, was constructed in 1853 by Benjamin Ferrey for Robert Hanbury. It is made of squared coursed Kentish ragstone with freestone dressings and features a red tiled roof with ridge cresting of pierced trefoiled tiles. Designed in the Early English style, the church includes a chancel, a nave, a south timber porch, and a tall, buttressed western tower. The tower has an octagonal southwest projecting stair turret that rises higher than the unbattlemented parapet, along with a north vestry. The tower houses four bells that were formerly part of the old church. The windows exhibit varied tracery, including a three-light Decorated window in the west, two-light Geometrical windows in the nave, lancets in the chancel, and a three-light Geometrical window in the east. A drip mould from the south door of the chancel extends as a stringcourse. The interior features a collar beam roof with additional transverse collar beams along the walls, as well as late 18th-century mural monuments and 19th-century mural monuments by Bedford and Theed, commemorating Caroline Hanbury (died 1883) and R C Hanbury (1867). The church also contains Victorian stained glass. It is situated in a commanding position high on a hillside, overlooking the valley and the village.