Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary, built around 1806 as a proprietary chapel, was enlarged in 1824 by James Arding and Son, with the chancel added by Arthur Cawston after 1881. The liturgical west front, designed by W Newton Dunn around 1904, defines the exterior. It features a modified "Wrenaissance" style, constructed of hale gault bricks with rich stone dressings, while the rest of the exterior is made of yellow stocks and topped with a slate roof.

The west front includes a pedimented temple front flanked by towers, presenting a rusticated podium and an upper stage, each marked by a pilaster order: Ionic below and Corinthian above. The podium stage's temple mouth is concealed by the elliptical wall of the baptistery, which has tall round-arched windows. The pilasters of the baptistery extend as buttresses to the drum stage of the hemispherical dome. A large lunette window, framed by the upper stage of the temple front, complements this dome.

Each flanking tower's podium stage features double doors within an ordered surround and entablature, which continues into the upper stage where a segmental-pedimented aedicule frames a tall round-arched window, a motif repeated on the return. Each tower has a richly carved attic with squat obelisk finials at the corners. The north-west tower supports a complex spire in the English Baroque style, which includes a clock stage, two octagonal stages, and a finial with reverse-scroll buttresses. The north and south elevations of the nave and the north and south transepts have two tiers of windows, with the lower tier featuring gauged cambered arches and the upper tier with gauged round-headed arches.