Church of St. Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a 13th-century church with 19th-century additions and 15th, 17th, and 19th-century restorations. It is constructed of render over flint with dressed Bath stone quoins and dressings, with a Bath stone ashlar north aisle and porch, and tiled and slate roofs. The church comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, and south aisle, with the north porch and north aisle dating to the 19th century.

The north elevation features, to the left, a chancel with two trefoil-headed single light windows. To the centre is the north aisle with three-light windows under square heads and label moulds, flanking a gabled north porch. To the right is the tower, which has two stages with a plinth, angle buttresses, and a crenellated parapet. A stair turret is situated in the angle between the tower and the nave. The first stage of the tower has a single-light window, and the upper stage holds a clock beneath a two-light window with cusped ogee-headed lights under a label mould; a grotesque head decorates the base of the parapet.

The south elevation shows the tower to the left with a blocked single-light window in the upper stage. The south aisle features lancets flanking a central two-light square-headed window, which was enlarged below its original sill to create a mullion and transom window. A memorial slab commemorates W.A. Black Aller, who died in 1753. Two mass dials are cut into the right quoin of the aisle. The chancel has a low brick wall across the angle between the aisle and the chancel. A trefoil headed window is present, as is a central porch with exposed flintwork and a four-centred arched doorway, and a segmental pointed arched window with a chevron pattern drip mould.

Inside, the walls are plastered. The chancel has a tall crown post roof of two bays, with two lancets having wide rear arches to the north and south walls. An oculus is present on the east wall, alongside an aumbry under a segmental pointed arch with chevron carving on the north wall. The chancel arch is four-centred, with a double chamfer springing from carved heads at the corbels. The nave has a tall crown post roof of three bays, with a three-bay arcade to the south of chamfered pointed arches on short columns with moulded bases and simple caps; a small grotesque head is carved at the springing of the eastern arch. A three-bay arcade to the north has four-centred arches on slender piers. The tower arch is two-centred with a molded soffit, and the date 1625 is carved on the south impost. The south aisle has a collared roof with double butt purlins and curved wind braces, spanning three bays with intermediate collars. A trefoil piscina is present in the south wall, along with the remains of an arch to a rood stair at the junction with the nave and chancel. The north aisle has a four-bay king post roof.

A marble plaque with a broken pediment and scutcheon of arms commemorates Joseph Barnes and his wife (died 1753) on the south wall of the sanctuary. Notable fittings include a 17th-century communion rail of alternating twisted and turned balusters with a molded rail, a hexagonal 17th-century pulpit with carved panels, and a font in the north aisle with a stone bowl having a nine-sided top and carved arcade on a 20th-century stone base.