Church Of St Mary Church Of St Mary Virgin

The Church of St Mary, also known as the Church of St Mary Virgin, is a parish church with origins dating back to the 12th century, although it is largely from the 13th century. The church underwent restorations in 1866, 1868-1869, and 1899. It is constructed from flint and features a plain tiled roof. The layout includes a chancel, a nave with a west tower, and a south porch.

The tower is single-stage and had its top stage removed following damage from a 16th-century earthquake. It has clasping buttresses and a brick eaves cornice leading to a low tiled spire, along with blocked belfry windows. The ground floor has small single lights with trefoil heads carved from a single block. The south porch, dating from the 13th century, has a chamfered outer door and a roll-moulded inner doorway with attached shafts, as well as a medieval ogee-shaped door. The chancel is stepped in from the nave and features corner buttresses. The east wall was rebuilt in the 19th century, and lancet windows are present throughout.

Inside, there is a 19th-century chamfered doorway leading to the tower, and a blocked stop-chamfered north doorway that is tall and narrow. The north wall has two chamfered elliptical recesses, with the easternmost recess containing a low inset window. There are also two similar recesses on the south wall, which feature crude decorations of figures and flowers, along with attached shafts and cusping, likely intended as tomb recesses for the Monyns family. A blocked and truncated semi-circular arch is located in the extreme southeast of the nave, with a small round-headed lancet on the east wall. The church has a 19th-century trussed rafter roof, a chancel arch from 1866, and a chancel roof from the 19th century. There are two hollow chamfered elliptical recesses on the south wall, which are part of the double sedilia, and a simple trefoiled piscina in the chancel. All fittings are from the 19th century.