Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a mediaeval church, largely rebuilt in the mid-14th century. It has undergone restoration in 1866 and 1901. The building comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, a south porch, an organ chamber, and a boiler house. It is constructed of flint rubble with limestone dressings and parapet gables. The nave, chancel, and organ chamber have plaintiled roofs, the tower roof is flat with crenellated parapets, the south aisle roof is slated, and the porch and north aisle roofs are leaded.

A core of the chancel dates back to the mid-13th century, the tower is slightly earlier, and the north doorway from the chancel features a hoodmould, the moulding continuing as a dado. A double piscina, dating to around 1300, has a hood-mould with cusped arches above. The south chancel wall contains an early 14th-century window with low-side windows below a transome. The early 14th-century, unbuttressed tower has two-light belfry windows, lion-head gargoyles, and a plain west doorway. The nave was rebuilt in the mid-14th century, featuring four-bay arcades with octagonal columns, and a similar chancel arch. North and south doorways, and two-light traceried aisle windows all have hoodmoulds both inside and out, some with mask-corbels. Many windows retain areas of good original glass, including figures and tabernacle work. The south door, made of oak battened and boarded panels, dates from the 14th or 15th century.

Mid-14th-century windows are found in the chancel, including a five-light window with net-tracery in the east wall, and two-light windows in the north and south walls. A moulded 14th-century priest's doorway is located in the south wall. The south porch was added in the 15th century, with a moulded arched doorway and two-light side-windows, and was restored and reroofed in 1901. The clerestory, and nave and chancel roofs were rebuilt in 1866; the nave roof is of arch-braced collar-beam type and the chancel is ceiled in seven cants and painted. The organ chamber and boiler house were added to the north side in 1866.

An octagonal font features a 14th-century octagonal traceried bowl, with a probably 19th-century stem. A 17th-century octagonal pulpit is also present. In the nave are two reused 15th-century poppyhead benchends. On the chancel walls are two painted consecration crosses. Several late 19th-century stained glass windows by Clayton and Bell and others are located in the chancel, alongside a dado of Salviati mosaic lining the sanctuary walls. The chancel also holds wall tablets commemorating William Glascock (d.1718) and Thomas Thoresby (d.1790) and his wife Isabella (d.1794). A marble floor slab commemorates Revd. Thomas Mallaber (d.1732) and his wife Margaret (d.1719). In the tower is a painted wall-tablet in memory of Revd. James David (will 1691).