Church Of St Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a Grade II* listed building located in Bucklebury, dating back to the 12th century. It features a north door from around 1170 and underwent restoration in 1855 by William Butterfield, with further work in 1876 and 1901 when a bellcote was added. The church is constructed of flint with stone dressings and has an old tile roof over the nave and chancel, along with a shingled bellcote at the west end of the nave. The bellcote has three cinquefoiled arches on each face with quatrefoils above, topped with a pyramidal tiled roof and weathervane.

The church comprises a nave, chancel, south porch, and north vestry. The west end of the nave features diagonal buttresses and a window with two ogee-headed cusped lights and a hoodmould. The south side has a gabled timber porch on a low stone wall with a tiled roof and three small arches in the gable end, along with a large trefoiled south doorway and a lancet to the right flanked by paired lancets. The north side includes paired lancets to the left and a 12th-century doorway to the right with one order, shafts, and scalloped capitals.

The chancel's south side has two cusped lancets with a buttress to the left, while the east end features diagonal buttresses and a large Decorated style window with three cinquefoiled lights, trefoils, and a hexafoil in the tracery above, along with a hoodmould with carved stops. The north side has two cusped lancets. The vestry is gabled to the north and has a stack with two octagonal shafts and moulded caps, diagonal buttresses to the north, and a window with two ogee-headed lights and a quatrefoil in the tracery, as well as a hoodmould with carved stops. There is a square-headed window to the east with two ogee lights and a lancet-style doorway to the west.

Inside, the church features a seven-bay 19th-century arch-braced roof with windbraces. There is a wall piscina in the chancel to the southeast and a 12th-century pillar piscina to the northeast. Other fittings are from the 19th century, including an octagonal font, octagonal pulpit, and reredos.