Church of St. Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a building of group value, originally dating from the 12th century, with a 13th-century tower and substantial restoration work carried out in 1850 and 1880 by Bodley and Garner. The church is constructed of flint with Bath stone dressings, largely rendered except for the chancel, parts of the tower, and the south porch. A south transept is of 18th-century brick with Bath stone dressings, while the roofs are tiled with stone coped gable parapets. The building follows a cruciform plan, incorporating a west tower and a south porch.

The tower is square with corner buttresses and three short stages, incorporating stone string courses and gargoyles at the base of the parapet. The top stage on the south face displays a chequered pattern of stone and flint, with a clock face above a louvre. A Norman-style west door features billet and chevron moulds. A sundial is positioned on the south-west buttress.

The nave was rebuilt in the 19th century with Decorated-style windows, alongside a 19th-century Norman-style south porch.

The south transept dates back to an 18th-century rebuilding in brick, and features a parapet with stone string and coping, in addition to a three-light Decorated-style window beneath a two-centred arched drip mould.

The chancel has 19th-century Decorated-style windows flanking a central door.

The interior features a painted, five-bay roof to the nave and a three-bay roof to the chancel. The north transept holds a pair of marble pyramidal monuments on the east wall, dedicated to Jemmet Raymond (1767) and Sir Jemmet Raymond of Barton (1754), incorporating busts in a classical Roman style, a bracketed cornice, busts, an urn, and hanging drapery. A white marble monument to Charles Dundas, Baron Amesbury (1832), is found to the north of the Chancel Arch in the nave, with the inscription "Patent Works Westminster" on the base. To the south of the Chancel Arch in the nave is a Gothic-style marble monument to Rev. Fulwar Craven Fowle (1840). A monument to Philip Emnett esq. (1678) is located to the north of the Chancel Arch within the chancel itself, consisting of a black oval panel adorned with carved white flowers, fruit, and swags, a cherub's head at the base, two cherubs flanking a scutcheon with ribbon scroll between death's heads, and a crested helm. A brass memorial to John and Alice Gunter (1624) is present on the south wall of the chancel, depicting two figures above an inscription panel. Three 18th-century memorial tablets are fixed to the west wall of the south transept. A painted and gilded carved timber reredos in Gothic style features a central panel depicting the crucifixion, flanked by double panels with painted central scutcheons, all surmounted by a carved cornice. The tower includes a re-used 17th-century stair with turned balusters, leading to a gallery.