Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating back to the 13th century. A north chapel and aisle spire were rebuilt in 1797, and a general restoration took place in 1881. The church is constructed of ragstone, with a red brick porch and buttresses. The roof is tiled, and the spire is shingled. The building includes a chancel with a north chapel, a nave and north aisle, a western tower, and a south porch. The tower is single-stage with large, offset, diagonal buttresses and a broach spire. A shallow roll moulding features on the west door. A C17 brick south porch, now used as a vestry, is irregularly bonded. Perpendicular windows are found on the nave (some C19 restoration), while the chancel, chapel, and north aisle have ogee-headed C14 windows. Lancet windows are present at both east and west ends of the chancel and aisle/chapel, some of which incorporate re-used C13 glass.

The interior features a simple C12 tower arch on imposts. A three-bay north arcade has round piers, octagonal capitals, and octagonal responds. The roof is tie-beam, with a lean-to roof to the aisle. A wooden chancel arch/screen was erected and dated 1637, exhibiting enriched bowed arched braces and a traceried upper section. Similar wooden arches are found to the north aisle/north chapel, dating around 1881. The chancel has a roof with two crown posts. Fittings include a C13 sedile and trecusped piscina in the chancel, and an ogee-headed piscina or aumbrey in the north chapel's east wall. C19 additions include an altar rail, reredos, font, and lectern. C16 Perpendicular panelling is used as wainscotting in the chancel and incorporated into the reading desk and pulpit. Benches are dated 1834. A fragment of C17 painted glass is in the vestry. A brass inscription commemorates Robert Gateley, who died in 1514. A monument to Robert Edolph, erected in 1632, is a large standing alabaster monument with black Corinthian columns supporting a broken segmental pediment. On the pediment are three arms cartouches above lifesize figures of Edolph and his Lady kneeling at a prayer desk with a double arcaded background. Paired skulls flank the inscription and verses. A charity board in the tower, with a cornice on pilasters, records the gifts of Martha Wade from 1825.