Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings, and features some brick and slate roofs. The building includes a former west tower, an aisleless nave with a south porch, and a chancel. The early 14th-century nave has four (formerly five) 2-light cusped Y-traceried windows. The west wall is dated 1583, marked by a datestone at the peak of the gable, and features a 4-light square-headed window with hollow chamfered mullions, a transom, and a hood mould with star label stops. There are blocked 14th-century moulded nave doors to the north.

The chancel, also from the 14th century, includes two 2-light north windows with pairs of mouchettes and single daggers, a 3-light east window with similar motifs within three soufflets, and two 2-light south windows with similar motifs within single soufflets. A 14th-century priest's door is present, along with a 15th-century porch that has a later brick parvis dated 1743 by tie ends. The porch features diagonal buttresses, a flushwork plinth, a moulded entrance, and two square-headed traceried windows.

Inside, the nave boasts a fine 9-bay hammerbeam roof with roll moulded wall plates, butt purlins, wall braces, and spandrel tracery. The 15th-century chancel arch has three-shaft responds and two shallow moulded orders. The 17th-century chancel roof consists of five bays with ashlaring, butt-purlins, collars, and wind bracing. There is a trilobe piscina with a 17th-century panelled and fluted wooden sedile beside it. Some restored 15th-century benches feature poppy heads, arm rest figures, and pierced traceried backs. The square font, dating from around 1200, stands on four columns (one of which is octagonal) with cushion capitals. Its bowl is adorned with semicircular headed, 2-centred, and trilobe arcading on three sides, and a mandorla with foliage carving flanked by rosettes on the fourth side.