Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with subsequent additions and alterations in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. It was restored in 1894 by Loftus Brock. The church is constructed of flint and dressed stone, with a plain tile roof. It comprises a nave and north aisle, a chancel, a north tower, and a north porch.

The west door is plank and stud, featuring a chamfered surround and drip mould within two deep offset buttresses. Above the door is a 3-light window from the 15th century, built in the Perpendicular style, with ogival mullions, a basket arch, and a deeply moulded drip mould. The south nave wall is rendered with a single chamfered lancet window, a restored 3-light window from the 15th century, a trefoil-headed lancet window, and 19th-century offset buttressing. The chancel is set into the nave, with a lower roofline. There is a large blocked arch to the west. The north wall has a 19th-century decorated-style 2-light window. The tower has a red brick top stage and a lead spire. A blocked opening on the north side leads to a chancel cellar, with a lancet window above and a brick belfry opening. The south wall has a 19th-century doorway, evidence of a blocked original doorway to the west, with a lancet above, and a 2-light 19th-century window. The gabled north porch is of flint and ashlar, featuring half-glazed 19th-century doors with a drip mould. The north aisle wall has three 19th-century cusped windows.

Inside, a two-bay Romanesque arcade leads to the north aisle, featuring restored capitals positioned where they cut through the original exterior wall, revealing an earlier Romanesque window. The north tower angles into the nave and is corbelled to support the nave wall plate, with a rood stair built into the tower. The nave roof has two crown posts on a canted tie beam. The north door has a moulded and carved wood lintel. The chancel is inset and has a lower ceiling where the tie beam carries both the nave crown post and the gable wall of the chancel, incorporating cusped panelled framing. The tower supports the wall plate at a higher level than elsewhere in the chancel. The chancel contains an early 14th-century ogee-headed sedile with attached octagonal shafts, undercut capitals, curved head stops and water holding bases. A plain chamfered piscina is also present. The altar features a reredos from 1704 with a scrolled frieze, and altar rails from 1702, which have been restored. A water stoup is located by the north door. A coat of arms is displayed in the north-west wall of the nave, dated 1710. Monuments include wall plaques in the chancel to the Filmer family (1810-1859) and floor slabs in the nave to the Carter family of Winchcombe (1662). A large alabaster slab, measuring 6 feet by 3 feet, features an incised figure and a Latin inscription, commemorating John Sprot, Rector from 1431-66, who died on 9th December 1466. Fragments of glass, including a roundel of the Virgin from around 1300, are visible in the south windows of the nave and chancel.