Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with evidence of a building dating back to before 1100, alongside significant additions and alterations made around 1200, 1300, and the 15th century. The church is constructed of flint with stone dressings, incorporating conglomerate and Roman tiles in the nave dressings. Some areas retain traces of rendering. The nave has a slate roof, while the chancel and south transept are covered with black glazed pantiles.

The nave incorporates fabric from before 1100, including a blocked round-headed doorway with tile quoins and arch, and corner quoins. A south door dating to around 1200 features a pointed arch supported by colonnettes with missing shafts. A Perpendicular style porch is set into the south side, rendered with cement. The nave’s south side contains a slightly cambered two-light Perpendicular window and a three-light arched Perpendicular window. The north side has a blocked doorway from around 1200, alongside a two-light and a three-light Perpendicular window. Four buttresses are present on the north side, with three having been rebuilt in brick. The west tower is of Perpendicular style, featuring three paired lancet windows at the belfry, with details obscured or mullions removed. A Perpendicular style south transept was constructed in 1496, featuring two-light east and west windows and a three-light south window.

The chancel, dating to around 1200, has a Decorated-Perpendicular style east window of three lights and two paired lancets to the south, along with a priest's door.

Inside, the nave is characterized by a five-bay Perpendicular roof with arched braces springing from carved capitals and angels, with bosses marking the intersection of the purlins and principals. A coved wall plate is adorned with shields and quatrefoils. A Perpendicular style font features the arms of the Valoines family, who were Lords of the Manor. A 17th-century panelled bench is situated at the rear of the nave. A Jacobean pulpit, with six sides, displays 15th-century brass memorial inscriptions attached with hinges. Also present are a Perpendicular rood loft door and loft arch, and a chancel arch on responds. A Decorated-Perpendicular style niche on the south side has an ogee head with a cinquefoil. An angle piscina and window-sill sedilia, both dating to around 1200, are also found within. There is a single 15th-century Poppyhead bench. In addition, there is a 19th-century king post roof. The south transept chapel has a two-bay Perpendicular arch-braced roof, plastered between the rafters, and features two Poppyhead benches.