Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church that has been made redundant. It dates from the 13th to the 15th century and was restored in the 19th century. The building is constructed of stone and features a west tower, a nave with a clerestory and aisles, a south porch, and a chancel. The nave and aisles have a flat lead roof, while the chancel has a tiled roof with a stone-coped east gable. The unbuttressed 13th-century tower has traceried belfry windows and a battlemented parapet. The aisles have plain parapets, and the nave has battlemented parapets along with 14th and 15th-century traceried windows. The south porch is from the 15th century, and the chancel includes an east window and two windows on each side, all featuring 14th-century Decorated tracery.

Inside, the nave consists of two bays supported by 14th-century quatrefoil piers, with the capitals of the south arcade being older than those of the north. There is a wide 14th-century tower arch and old roof timbers in the aisles. Notable fittings include a 15th-century font carved with tracery, an early 19th-century organ in Gothic style, and 15th-century bench ends.

In the north aisle wall, there is a monument to Francis Catesby from 1636, featuring a small recumbent effigy above an inscription panel and three small kneeling figures on the wall behind, framed by Corinthian columns that support an entablature with a broken forward design and a semi-circular broken pediment containing a coat of arms. The monument is set on a deep moulding supported by console brackets. There is also a brass to Francis Catesby from 1556 and a tablet at the west end of the north aisle wall with an oval panel on a console bracket, adorned with floral swags and a central cartouche of arms. In the chancel, there are 19th-century white memorial tablets for members of the Shedden family, including one commemorating Robert Shedden, who died in 1849 while searching for Sir John Franklin, featuring a relief carving of his yacht, Nancy Dawson, below the tablet.