Parish Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church that was mainly rebuilt in the 19th century, with further alterations made in 1932. The tower and likely part of the north aisle wall date back to 1658, while the west end of the chancel was completed in 1693. The south aisle and vestry were designed by John Shaw in 1822, and the baptistry was added in 1884. The east end was altered and enlarged in 1932. The church features a brick tower and aisles, a stucco clerestory, and a pantiled pitched roof, predominantly in the Gothic revival style.

It has a four-bay aisled nave, a two-storey south porch, and a lower chancel. The square western tower consists of three stages with corner buttresses and a domed 18th-century clock turret. The aisle windows have cuspless geometrical tracery, while the clerestory features square-headed mullioned windows, each with three arched lights. The arcade is supported by octagonal piers and round-headed arches, and the pointed chancel-arch is believed to date from 1932. The roof trusses are mainly encased, and there is some Victorian stained glass. Inside, there are various monuments, primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries, including elaborate memorials to the Hicks family beneath the tower and a monument to William Bosanquet from 1813 by John Flaxman on the west wall of the north aisle.