Church Of St Mary, Moulton

The Church of St Mary in Moulton is a former parish church, now vested in the Redundant Churches Fund. The core of the building dates back to the 12th century with the west tower, while the nave and chancel were largely constructed in the 14th century, with later additions throughout its history. The church is built of red brick and flint with limestone dressings, with differing roof coverings: the nave is pantiled with a crested ridge, the chancel and south porch are slated, and the tower is plain-tiled.

The round west tower, likely from the 12th century, features a small, round opening ("loop") on its south side, and a larger bell opening with a wooden louvre to the north. A blocked two-light Decorated window is found on the west side and the tower has a conical, plain-tiled roof. The south porch is of 16th-century red brick construction, incorporating a stone sun dial in its south-west corner. Its double hollow-chamfered arch has square labels with shields in the spandrels, and an arched niche above the doorway. Blocked three-light windows flank the east and west sides of the porch, each carrying plain brick labels. The nave's south wall contains two windows with Y tracery dating to around 1300, alongside a central three-light Perpendicular window with head-stops to its hood mould. Staged buttresses divide the bays of the wall. The chancel has two two-light south windows with Y tracery, replaced in wood, probably in the early 19th century, and a priest's door with intersecting tracery between them. The east gable of the nave is slate-hung. The chancel’s east wall has been rebuilt in brick, incorporating cast iron tie plates dated 1877 and 1879. A replaced three-light east window with intersecting tracery is set within this wall. A flint and stone buttress is situated at the north-east corner. The north wall of the chancel and eastern bay of the nave both have wide single lancet windows, and there are two and three-light windows in the north nave wall. A north doorway, with plain and hollow chamfers and scrolled label stops, provides access. The south door retains medieval ironwork. Inside, the nave roof is scissor-braced with a boarded ceiling and the chancel ceiling is plastered. Remnants of a rood stair have been reconstructed in the south-east corner of the nave, and a timber beam with barred chamfer stops is in place where the chancel arch once stood. Chancel benches feature poppy-heads, likely from the early 17th century, and a 17th-century communion rail exhibits turned balusters and posts. A corbel-head is set into the window jamb of the north chancel wall. The chancel's south wall is notable for a fine double piscina from around 1300, featuring a sexfoil perforation in the spandrel of the double-arched opening, alongside a dropped cill sedilia. A wall monument commemorating Edmund Anguish (+1616), his wife and son is also located in the chancel. The nave contains fine wall paintings, likely from the 14th century, depicting St. Christopher on the north wall and the Seven Acts of Mercy on the south wall. A finely carved, early 17th-century octagonal pulpit is present, complete with backboard and tester. The church also holds a 13th-century octagonal font, with two shallow blind arches on each face, a plain central stem, and eight plain shafts.