Church Of St Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church located in Strumpshaw, dating from the 12th and 15th centuries. It was reordered and refurnished following a fire in 1971. The building is constructed of flint and brick with limestone dressings, featuring roofs that are slated and pantiled. The church includes a west tower, nave, chancel, south porch, and vestry.

The 12th-century round tower has an octagonal upper stage with tall lancets on the cardinal faces, while the 15th-century embattled parapet is adorned with flushwork panels and a string course at its base, supported by head-corbels. The west window is a restored two-light Perpendicular style. The south porch, made of flint and brick, has cusped lancets on the north and south sides, and its west wall partially conceals a lancet from the nave's south wall.

The late Norman south doorway features zig-zag work in the arch and a billet-moulded hood. The windows throughout the church are generally two-light Perpendicular style and have been much restored, with the nave windows displaying stilted hood moulds. Inside, there is a 15th-century four-centred tower arch supported on corbels, and the roofs were rebuilt after the fire. The chancel arch, also from the 15th century, has head stops to the hood mould on the eastern side.

Additional interior features include a banner-staff recess in the north wall of the nave, a piscina in the south wall of the chancel with a petalled bowl and a cusped arched head in a square opening, and stepped dropped-cill sedilia. The octagonal font has been re-cut and is topped with an ornate crocketted cover.