Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building located on Earsham Road in Denton. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features slate roofs. The chancel, dating from the late 13th century, has a five-light east window with intersecting tracery, along with north and south chancel windows that display Y-tracery. The church includes Perpendicular style north and south aisles, which have Decorated east and west windows. There are two clerestory windows on each side, featuring quatrefoil square openings.

The west tower, originally circular, has been partly rebuilt and faced in brick in the 18th century in a Gothic style, with a late 19th-century flint top stage. The north porch, built in the 15th century, is two-storeyed and has diagonal buttresses, a niche between the first-floor windows, and a Tierceron-star-vault adorned with carved bosses depicting the Coronation of the Virgin, the Nativity, the Resurrection, and the Ascension.

Inside, the church has three-bay north and south arcades supported by octagonal piers and double chamfered arches. The nave roof, arched and braced, dates from the late 19th century. There is a piscina with a traceried gable, and stained glass pieces were assembled by Archdeacon Postlethwaite and arranged by Joshua Price between 1716 and 1719, including 15th-century English figures and continental 16th and 17th-century panels, as well as heraldic glass up to Price's own time. The octagonal font features quatrefoils containing shields, and some early 16th-century painted panels from a former screen have been repurposed into a chest. A notable monument within the church commemorates Robert Rogerson, who died in 1684, featuring a tablet with an inscription and stacks of books on either side.