Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed parish church located on Drinkstone Road. It dates back to the medieval period and features a nave, chancel, and west tower. The building is constructed of flint rubble, with the upper part of the tower made from red brick. Freestone quoins are present, and the nave walls, which date from the 11th to 12th centuries, include areas of herringbone work. The church lacks parapets or parapet gables.

Inside, there are two 12th-century lancet windows in the nave, one of which has shallow carving. The north doorway features 11th to 12th-century jambs topped with a 13th-century hoodmoulded arched head. Significant alterations were made in the mid-14th century, including the addition of 2-light windows in the nave and chancel, a 3-light east window, and plain south doorways. The chancel arch is narrow and deeply splayed, with restored sidelights that have pinnacled hoodmoulds on the east face. A low-side window in the chancel is square and unembellished.

The 15th-century tower has flushwork patterns in the parapets, while the upper section is made of late 16th or early 17th-century red brick and features simple 2-light belfry windows. The nave face of the tower includes buttresses that rise from squinches, adorned with carved grotesques beneath. The nave has a scissor-braced coupled-rafter roof with a cornice moulded in the 14th-century style, while the chancel roof is likely of a similar date but is ceiled except for the cornice.

Notable interior features include an octagonal 14th-century font with traceried panelled sides, four 15th-century poppyhead benches, and another bench that may be crudely formed from the 17th century.