Former Church Of St Mary

The former Church of St Mary is a disused chancel of a parish church located in Braiseworth, with its core dating back to the 12th century and early alterations made in the 14th century. The structure is built of flint rubble with some remnants of render and features stone dressings. The west end is constructed from 19th-century red brick and has a plaintiled roof. On the northwest side, there is a 12th-century lancet window alongside a larger trefoil-headed lancet. The south wall includes a square-headed 15th-century window with two lights and a simple early 14th-century priest's doorway. There is a blocked window on the southeast side, with its splay visible from the inside. The east end was rebuilt around 1300 and features a Y-traceried window. At the west end, small portions of the nave walls have been preserved as buttresses.

Inside, the church has a coupled-rafter roof with straight collar braces and ashlar pieces, with a few replacement timbers but otherwise retaining its medieval character. There is a two-centre arched piscina with a credence shelf, and a small trefoil-headed niche located to the north of the east window. The west wall displays the faded Arms of George III and framed 18th-century copies of the Lord's Prayer, Commandments, and Creed. On either side of the east window are very faint painted panels that likely contained the Creed and Lord's Prayer, dating to the early 17th century. Additionally, there is an effigy brass dedicated to Alexander Newton from 1569. The church was replaced by a new church in 1858, which incorporated the nave doorways, and it was later used as a cemetery chapel.