Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church primarily built in the Perpendicular style. Its exterior features flint walls with stone dressings, while the nave clerestory and south aisle are cement rendered. The roofs are slate, with brick dentil eaves cornices dating from around 1800. The west tower, also in the Perpendicular style, consists of five stages and is supported by diagonally set buttresses made of squared and knapped flint. It has a central door, three-light west windows, and four belfry windows.

The nave has a clerestory and a south aisle with four bays, while the chancel consists of two bays. The south porch is in the Perpendicular style, featuring two curvilinear windows and a traceried door set within a 1200 arch, although the shafts are missing. The south aisle contains three square-headed two-light windows, along with two-light curvilinear windows at the east and west ends. The clerestory has four two-light Perpendicular windows. The north wall of the nave includes a clerestory and three three-light Perpendicular windows, which are divided by embattled transoms. This arrangement is repeated once in the north wall of the chancel and twice in the south wall, with one window blocked. The east window, dating from around 1300, has five lights and a central quatrefoil.

Inside, there is a four-bay south arcade and an east end angle piscina from around 1200. The tower and chancel arches are in the Perpendicular style. A 13th-century grey marble font is present, along with C15 poppyhead benches. There is a 18th-century commandment board and Royal Arms from 1688, although it has been overpainted. The chancel features a C15 screen, decorated piscina, and sedilia with arched crocketed canopies and miniature vaulting. C15 traceried stone panels adorn the east wall behind the altar. The chancel floor is made of black and white stippled polished marble from the 18th century, with three steps leading to the altar. The altar rails have end posts with strap work decoration and ball finials from the mid-17th century. C15 glass fragments can be found in the north and south windows. There are alabaster wall monuments from around 1610, two wall monuments from the 18th century, and a C15 brass. The roofs of the nave and aisle have exposed rafters dating from around 1800, while the chancel roof features elaborate scissors trusses from the mid-19th century.