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 some ferruginous conglomerate and ashlar dressings, and features slate roofs. The church includes a south tower-porch, a nave with a north aisle added in 1871, and a chancel. The 14th-century tower-porch has diagonal buttresses on the south side and single angle buttresses aligned with the nave wall. The massive porch entrance is composed of three orders that are moulded with hollow chamfers and filletted rolls on trilobe responds with bell capitals, and it features carved head label stops. There is a moulded 14th-century south doorway and cusped Y-traceried bell-openings. The nave and chancel have four restored two-light Perpendicular windows on the south side, along with a similar three-light west window that has a four-centred doorway below. The north aisle contains three similar re-set two-light windows and one three-light replica, while the east window of the chancel is a three-light Perpendicular style. The chancel arch has polygonal responds, and there is a cusped angle piscina in the chancel. The font, likely late Norman, has a circular bowl supported by four pairs of engaged shafts on four colonnettes with cushion capitals and bases. The Victorian four-bay north arcade is designed in the style of the 14th and 15th centuries. There is a wall tablet from the ruinous church of Oxwick, dated 1663, dedicated to Samuell Smithe, which features a long and interesting inscription on slate bordered by veined alabaster, topped with a carved and painted achievement and an open segmental pediment. Additionally, some fragments of 15th-century stained glass can be found in the southeast chancel window.